Brittany Romanello

Brittany “Bri” Romanello is a sociocultural anthropologist and ethnographer specializing in the intersections of immigration, gender, race, U.S. religions, and family. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas. Her research employs a mixed-methods approach, combining ethnographic and community-based methods to investigate how legal status, social networks, and religious affiliation influence migrants' identities, sense of belonging, access to resources, as well as mental health and well-being. Before coming to the University of Arkansas, she taught in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, as well as completed a Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship with the National Park Service, where she studied human movement and place-making along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail in the Southwest borderlands and Sonora, Mexico. She has also worked in medicolegal death investigation for Maricopa County, humanitarian organizing, and public education. Additionally, she has experience working in immigration law and policy in Arizona, Texas, and California.