Mary I. O’Connor is associate researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work with Mixtec Evangelicals has included field research in the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California, as well as in California, Oregon, and Washington in the United States. She has received two Fulbright fellowships for teaching in Mexico. She was a visiting research fellow at the Center for US-Mexico Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and has received two Fulbright-Hays grants for faculty research as well as numerous grants from agencies within the University of California system.
