Sol Cristina Escobar is a lecturer in the Global Studies Program and in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Camden. A political sociologist with a regional focus on Latin America and Latinx communities, her research examines the intersections of migration, citizenship, transnational political participation, and social movements. She has conducted extensive comparative work on immigrant political engagement in the United States and abroad, with a focus on Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican communities.
Escobar has received research support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Mellon Foundation. She has held visiting positions and fellowships at institutions including Princeton University and Temple University, and has participated in major research projects on immigrant organizations and global citizenship. Her scholarship has appeared in Latin American Research Review, International Migration Review, Democratization, and Citizenship Studies, among others.
She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and continues to contribute to public and academic conversations on transnational civil society, dual citizenship, and the evolving nature of political belonging across borders.