Lloyd D. Barba is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. 

He is the author of the award-winning book Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press, 2022), editor of Latin American and US Latino Religions in North America: An Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2024), and co-editor of Oneness Pentecostalism: Race, Gender, and Culture (Penn State Press, 2023). 

His current public scholarship on the Sanctuary Movement includes “Sanctuary: On the Border Between Church and State,” a podcast, co-written and co-hosted with PRRI fellow Sergio González (coming Fall 2024 with Axis Mundi Media). Barba’s current writing on the Sanctuary Movement include A Refuge of Resistance: A History of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with Oxford University Press) and a volume edited with Sergio González, Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the Sanctuary Movement (under contract with NYUPress). His work has been published in media outlets including The Conversation US, The Washington Post, and Religion and Politics.

Research Area: Immigration and Migration 

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