Pamela A. Quiroz (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993) is Executive Director of the national Latino research consortium, the Inter University Program on Latino Research. She is also Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies and CLASS Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. A researcher of children, youth, family and identity, Professor Quiroz is author of Adoption in a Colorblind Society [Rowman and Littlefield] and Dating, Mating and Relating: Personal Advertising in Modern Society [McFarland Publisher 2022]. Professor Quiroz has published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence, Journal of Family Studies, Sociology of Education, Anthropology of Education, and Childhood. She has been a fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and the Great Cities Institute. She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, Houston Endowment, U.S. Department of Education, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. She served as Editor of Social Problems, the journal of the Society for the Study of Social Problems [2014–2018] and North American Editor for Children‘s Geographies, an interdisciplinary journal focused on intersections of children, youth, family and space.