Marie Friedmann Marquardt is a scholar-in-residence at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Her interests include religion among Latin American immigrants, gender and migration, multi-ethnic and multicultural congregations, religious diversity in new immigrant destinations, and the role of religion in shaping civic engagement and public life. She is a co-author, with Timothy J. Steigenga, Philip J. Williams, and Manuel A. Vásquez, of Living “Illegal”: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (The New Press) and, with Manuel A. Vásquez, of Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.