Publications & Presentations

Published Papers

Dyer, S., & Román-Torres, G. (2022). Latina/o Postsecondary Education: Trends in Racial/Ethnic Education Gaps and the Role of Citizenship in Access to Higher Education. Demography, 59(6), 2053-2078.

Working Papers

Román-Torres, Giovanni. “Destination Effects? The State of Latino Immigrant Well-Being across the American Landscape”

Román-Torres, Giovanni. “Placing the American Dream: Latino Immigrant Belonging in Southeastern Tennessee”

Román-Torres, Giovanni and Dyer, Shauna. “Immigrant Post-Secondary Education: Trends and Differences in Latina/o and Asian Immigration and Education”

Duquette-Rury, Lauren and Román-Torres, Giovanni. “From Old Law to Contemporary Naturalization: Estimating U.S. Naturalization Rate from 1906-2018”

Invited Talks

Placing the American Dream: Latino geographic dispersion and belonging in Tennessee. Video Screening and Conversation on Art and immigration. Organized by Engine for Art Democracy and Justice at Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee. February 29^th 2024.

Placing the American Dream: Latino geographic dispersion and belonging across the American Landscape Moving The Field Forward: Understanding Latinx Populations In Communities With Low-Income, co-organized by the Institute for Research Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and Child Trends Hispanic Institute, Bethesda Maryland, May 3-5 2023.

Placing the American Dream: Latino belonging across the American Landscape, Sewanee: University of the South, December 6th 2022.

Conference Presentations

Román-Torres, Giovanni. “Placing the American Dream: Latino Belonging in the U.S. South” American Sociological Association. Montreal, Canada. August 2024

Román-Torres, Giovanni and Lauren Duquette-Rury. “From Old Law to Contemporary Naturalization: Estimating U.S. Naturalization Rate from 1906-2018” Population Association of America. New Orleans. April 2023

Román-Torres, Giovanni. “Geographic Diversity of Latina/os in the United States: Changes in immigrant destinations and the spatial patterning of Latina/os between 1970-2019” Population Association of America, Atlanta, Georgia. April 2022. American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, California. August 2022.

Dyer, Shauna and Román-Torres, Giovanni. “The Hispanic Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historic Trends and Racial Comparisons” American Sociological Association, 2019 Annual Meeting. New York. August 2019.