She has authored several books,[1] received numerous awards and honors, and contributed to the field through various talks, publications, and mentoring.
[2] In 2015, she received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section,[3] and in 2018 she received the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, Latina/o Sociology Section.
[4] Since 1992, Hondagneu-Sotelo has worked as a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
Her work has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation for the Humanities, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, the Getty Research Institute, and the School for Advanced Research.
[5] Hondagneu-Sotelo lives in South Pasadena, CA with her husband Michael Messner, a sociologist and author.