Dr. Susan J. Terrio

Dr. Susan J. Terrio is the author of five books and three dozen articles. Since her retirement in 2018, Dr. Terrio has written two books that focus on undocumented migrants from Central America and Mexico who flee violence at home. Her most recent book will appear in January 2024, Forced Out. Migrant Mothers in Search of Refuge and Hope. It follows a co-edited volume published in 2019, Illegal Encounters. The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People. Dr. Terrio’s research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She was awarded residential fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. In 2021, Dr. Terrio was appointed as a Visiting Scholar in the School of Social Policy, Social Work, and Social Justice at the University College of Dublin, Ireland.