Pamela Anne Quiroz (born March 28, 1960) is an American sociologist. She is executive director of Inter University Program on Latino Research and director of Center for Mexican American Studies and professor of sociology, University of Houston.
Quiroz earned her BS in Sociology/Biology at Missouri Western State University, her MA in sociology at Iowa State University and PhD at the University of Chicago in 1993.
She has been a professor of sociology at the University of Houston, and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies there, since the fall of 2015. Previously, she was a professor of sociology and educational policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She served as the editor-in-chief of Social Problems.
Her research interests focus on children, youth and family including: race and inequality; education; identity; and qualitative methods for academic appointments with special emphasis on the development of individual identities among school students.