Enrique S. Pumar, Ph.D.
Dr. Enrique S. Pumar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America. His teaching and research interests cover the areas of comparative national development, race and ethnicity, poverty and inequality, higher education, and law and transnational crime.
Dr. Pumar is the author of multiple publications in the areas of political sociology, national development, migration, and crime and security. He has recently completed a book chapter on the social history of Latinos in Washington, DC and Maryland, and a chapter on public intellectuals and democracy. Other publications include "How Revolutions Justify Themselves," in A Changing Cuba in a Changing World (Mauricio A. Font, ed.); "Trade, Peace and Democracy: The Evidence from Latin America," in The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (2007); and "The Long and Winning Road in the Sociology of National Development," in The Handbook of Social Problems (Vincent Parrillo, ed.; Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2008).
Among his current projects are a study of ideological contentions in the environmental movement, and a study on transnational migration from Latin America to the United States and Spain. During the 2008-2009 academic year he served as President of the Washington, DC Sociological Society, and as the Chair of the Graduate Council of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Contact Information
Email: pumar[at]cua.edu
Phone: (202) 319-5445
Website: http://sociology.cua.edu/faculty/pumarcv07.doc
Department: Department of Sociology
