Brittany Romanello
Biographic Data
| ID | 102128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittany Romanello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittany |
| FAMILY NAME | Romanello |
| SIGNATURE | ROMANELLO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3784-5995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“I Want to Keep Deciding for Them”: A Snapshot of Latina Latter-day Saint Motherhood of LGBTQ+ Children
(Re)Grounding Complex Legacies of Culture, Identity, and Faithscapes in Jason Palmer's Forever Familias
Jason Palmer's Forever Familias: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism offers a profound ethnographic exploration of how race, gender, and indigeneity intersect within the Mormon community in Peru, the migration process, and the United States, namely Utah. Through a meticulously detailed account of his seven years of fieldwork, Palmer unpacks Peruvians’ multifaceted religious identity in a context marked by colonial histories, migra…
Asylum Seekers’ Rights Denied and Border Communities Disrupted: Ethnographic Accounts on the 2023 Border Closure in Lukeville, Arizona
This paper examines the humanitarian, social, and economic disruptions resulting from the 2023–2024 closure of the Lukeville, Arizona, Port of Entry (PoE). Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, including semi-structured and informal interviews, observation, and participation in local community events, we examine how a rural, unincorporated community handled a historic border closure. Further, we analyze how the closure impacted migrant…
The Burden of Truth is Just Very High: Inequalities in Institutional Responses to Family Violence”
How privilege affects reactions to men's femininity
This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s femininity is met with condemnation, but those with more privilege may have more leeway than those with less. Additionally, cultural attitudes may be evolving to be less homonegative, which may alter the reception of queer men’s femininity. From interv…
Latina Mormons Remember SB1070 and Other Anti-Immigration Enforcement in Arizona
I met Nora, a Mexican-born mother of two, in early 2021 via Zoom, just before she went to wait in line at a mega-church parking lot in north Phoenix to receive her first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. “I'm so relieved,” she told me, as she had spent most of 2020 worrying not only about the health and wellbeing of her family members but also her other “family” in her local Spanish-speaking congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa…
Feeling Seen
A content warning: this review discusses abuse, trauma, and suicide.I didn't open it for a few months after receiving I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders. I had been delighted when asked to review it, but when the time came, anxiety overwhelmed me. I knew I would see myself in this book in an intimate, painful way, even though many of the narratives don't directly reflect my own lived experiences. It was…
Symbolic Appropriation of the U.S. Flag: Findings from a Photovoice Study
Based on photovoice and interview data from 144 Arizona young adults collected as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this article builds on the concept of collective effervescence and symbolic violence through an analysis of U.S. flag images submitted by our respondents during the 2020 presidential election. Drawing on the literature on identity, belonging, and national symbols, this article highlights three main themes. First, our data …
Arizona Mormon Youths' Religious Socialization and 2020 Voting Choices
In Arizona, Mormonism has a historical presence as a conservative and globalized faith. Though the Mormon Church officially maintains political neutrality, it also encourages civic engagement. Through an analysis of interview data collected from 38 Mormon youth as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this paper explores the enactment of political agency in reaction to complex socialization processes. Mormon youths' voting choices in the 20…
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Photovoice: Methodological Insights from a Multi-site Online Design
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
I fell in love, but he is white”: Latina Mormon immigrants on interracial marriage and gendered family relationships
An Excellent Historiography into the Complexities of Mexican Mormondom
Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), also called Mormonism, has experienced rapid changes in its US demographics due to an influx of Latinx membership. The most recent growth in the US church body has been within Spanish-speaking congregations, and many of these congregant members are first or 1.5-generation immigrant Latinas. Using ethnographic data from 27 interviews with immigrant members living in Utah, Nevada, and Californi…
Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate US Mormon Spaces
I need to lose some weight”: Masculinity and body image as negotiated through fat talk
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Photovoice: Methodological Insights from a Multi-site Online Design
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
I fell in love, but he is white”: Latina Mormon immigrants on interracial marriage and gendered family relationships
I need to lose some weight”: Masculinity and body image as negotiated through fat talk
I need to lose some weight”: Masculinity and body image as negotiated through fat talk
Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate US Mormon Spaces
An Excellent Historiography into the Complexities of Mexican Mormondom
Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), also called Mormonism, has experienced rapid changes in its US demographics due to an influx of Latinx membership. The most recent growth in the US church body has been within Spanish-speaking congregations, and many of these congregant members are first or 1.5-generation immigrant Latinas. Using ethnographic data from 27 interviews with immigrant members living in Utah, Nevada, and Californi…
I fell in love, but he is white”: Latina Mormon immigrants on interracial marriage and gendered family relationships
Latina Mormons Remember SB1070 and Other Anti-Immigration Enforcement in Arizona
I met Nora, a Mexican-born mother of two, in early 2021 via Zoom, just before she went to wait in line at a mega-church parking lot in north Phoenix to receive her first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine. “I'm so relieved,” she told me, as she had spent most of 2020 worrying not only about the health and wellbeing of her family members but also her other “family” in her local Spanish-speaking congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa…
Feeling Seen
A content warning: this review discusses abuse, trauma, and suicide.I didn't open it for a few months after receiving I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders. I had been delighted when asked to review it, but when the time came, anxiety overwhelmed me. I knew I would see myself in this book in an intimate, painful way, even though many of the narratives don't directly reflect my own lived experiences. It was…
Symbolic Appropriation of the U.S. Flag: Findings from a Photovoice Study
Based on photovoice and interview data from 144 Arizona young adults collected as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this article builds on the concept of collective effervescence and symbolic violence through an analysis of U.S. flag images submitted by our respondents during the 2020 presidential election. Drawing on the literature on identity, belonging, and national symbols, this article highlights three main themes. First, our data …
Arizona Mormon Youths' Religious Socialization and 2020 Voting Choices
In Arizona, Mormonism has a historical presence as a conservative and globalized faith. Though the Mormon Church officially maintains political neutrality, it also encourages civic engagement. Through an analysis of interview data collected from 38 Mormon youth as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this paper explores the enactment of political agency in reaction to complex socialization processes. Mormon youths' voting choices in the 20…
The Impact of the 100-mile Border Enforcement Zone on Mexican Americans in Arizona
Based on qualitative interview data with Mexican American and White participants, this article examines the impact of immigration-related policies on the U.S.-born adult children of Mexican immigrants. Building on Dunn's concept of a low-intensity conflict zone, we argue that the militarization of the border carries consequences for Mexican American border residents. Becoming collateral subjects to a system of racialized legal violence, they expe…
Photovoice: Methodological Insights from a Multi-site Online Design
Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZYIP) used photovoice with an innovative approach in a multisite research design with a large sample size and completely online research implementation using video conferencing, mobile phones, and…
Asylum Seekers’ Rights Denied and Border Communities Disrupted: Ethnographic Accounts on the 2023 Border Closure in Lukeville, Arizona
This paper examines the humanitarian, social, and economic disruptions resulting from the 2023–2024 closure of the Lukeville, Arizona, Port of Entry (PoE). Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, including semi-structured and informal interviews, observation, and participation in local community events, we examine how a rural, unincorporated community handled a historic border closure. Further, we analyze how the closure impacted migrant…
The Burden of Truth is Just Very High: Inequalities in Institutional Responses to Family Violence”
How privilege affects reactions to men's femininity
This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s femininity is met with condemnation, but those with more privilege may have more leeway than those with less. Additionally, cultural attitudes may be evolving to be less homonegative, which may alter the reception of queer men’s femininity. From interv…
“I Want to Keep Deciding for Them”: A Snapshot of Latina Latter-day Saint Motherhood of LGBTQ+ Children
(Re)Grounding Complex Legacies of Culture, Identity, and Faithscapes in Jason Palmer's Forever Familias
Jason Palmer's Forever Familias: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism offers a profound ethnographic exploration of how race, gender, and indigeneity intersect within the Mormon community in Peru, the migration process, and the United States, namely Utah. Through a meticulously detailed account of his seven years of fieldwork, Palmer unpacks Peruvians’ multifaceted religious identity in a context marked by colonial histories, migra…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)