Valentina Napolitano, is professor of Anthropology at University of Toronto. She is the author of Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return (Fordham University Press, 2015) and Migration, Mujercitas and Medicine Man: Living in Urban Mexico (University of California Press, 2002). http://migranthearts.com/. In the latter she explores alternative modernities, urbanities in transformation, prisms of belonging and gendered subject formation in Guadalajara, with particular reference to contested Catholic evangelization, medical pluralism, gendered politics of dwelling and the celebration of the quinceñeras. More recently her research has focused on Catholicism, affect, transnational returns of histories and the Atlantic Return in a Roman Catholic Church politics/pedagogies toward Latin American migration in Rome with an ethnographic focus, among others, on the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Sacred Heart and the Legionaries of Christ. Professor Napolitano participates as researcher for the ISIR/RIDAGA Señor de los Milagros festival in Los Angeles.