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CURRICULUM VITAE (May 2010) Rubén G CURRICULUM VITAE (May 2010) Rubén G. Rumbaut Present Position: Professor of Sociology 3151 Social Science Plaza E-mail: [email protected] University of California, Irvine http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4999 Irvine, CA 92697 Personal Information: Place of Birth: La Habana, Cuba Citizenship: U.S. (Naturalization: May 2, 1969) Languages: Spanish and English (fluent in both) Formal Education: 1971-1973 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts: Ph.D.: 1978 (Sociology) M.A.: 1973 (Sociology) 1969-1971 San Diego State University, San Diego, California: M.A. Program (Sociology) 1965-1969 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri: B.A.: 1969 (Sociology-Anthropology and Biology) Academic and Professional Appointments: 2002- Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine 2002-2006 Co-Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy, UCI 2000-2001 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City 1993-2002 Professor, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University; and Senior Faculty Associate, Julián Samora Research Institute, and Institute for Public Policy & Social Research, MSU. 1992-1994 Senior Research Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Univ. of California, San Diego; and Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Social Organization, University of Michigan 1988-1993 Professor, Department of Sociology, San Diego State University 1985-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, San Diego State University 1978-1985 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego 1982-1985 Research Associate, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego 1977-1978 Research Director, California Public Interest Research Group; Editor, CalPIRG Reports 1973-1976 Research Social Scientist, City of San Diego Police Department 1973-1975 Lecturer, Department of Sociology, San Diego State University; and Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego 1971-1973 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Predoctoral Research Fellow, Brandeis University; and Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University Professional Honors and Awards: 2002 Distinguished Scholarly Publication (best book) Award, American Sociological Association 2002 W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki Award (best book in the field of international migration) 2000-2001 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City 1990 Immigrant America selected as a “Centennial Book” by the University of California Press 1998-present Elected member, Sociological Research Association 2006-2009 Elected member, Council of the American Sociological Association 1994-1995 Elected (Founding) Chair, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association 1994-2006 Elected member, Board of Overseers, General Social Survey; Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences; Committee on International Migration, Social Science Research Council 2010 Invited Address to International Scribani Conference, Universidad de Comillas, Madrid, Spain 2010 Keynote Address to International Migration Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 2010 Keynote Address to the XIII International Migration Congress, Universidad de Almería, Spain 2008 Invited Address to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria 2007 Keynote Address to international migration conference, Seoul National University, South Korea 2003 Pitirim Sorokin Lecture to the 74th annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association 2002 Keynote Address to the California Sociological Association 2002 Keynote Address to the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry 1999 Distinguished Scholar Lecture to the National Council on Family Relations 1997 Keynote Address to the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship 1995 Keynote Address to the Sociology of Education Association 1994 Keynote Address to the California Sociological Association 1992 Keynote Address to the Hispanic Law Students Association, University of Michigan Law School 1991 Faculty Research and Scholarship Exhibit, Love Library, San Diego State University 2002-2010 Russell Sage Foundation, Research Grant Awards 2001-2009 MacArthur Foundation, Research Grant Awards 2004-2005 National Science Foundation, Research Grant Award 1994-2002 Russell Sage Foundation, Research Grant Awards 1991-1996 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Research Grant Awards 1990-1991 U.S. Department of Education, OERI Research Grant Award 1987-1991 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Maternal and Child Health, Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance, Research Grant Awards 1986-1987 U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, Research Contract Award 1982-1985 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Research Grant Award 1992 Nominee, 1993 California State University Trustees' Outstanding Professor Award 1981 Nominee, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of California, San Diego 2 1981 Elected to "Honor Roll," National Conference of Christians and Jews (Annual award for outstanding contributions to the community) 1978 Blue Ribbon Commission, San Diego County Board of Supervisors 1975 Exceptional Performance Citation, City of San Diego Police Department (First ever awarded to a civilian in San Diego Police Department history) 1971-1973 National Institute of Mental Health Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Brandeis University Research Grants: 2009-2010 Principal Investigator, "Ethnic Mobility and Inequality in Southern California” (project focusing on comparative analysis of findings from the CILS-San Diego and IIMMLA studies). Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant. 2004-2010 Network member and Co-Investigator, “Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood” (extending our network’s research projects examining the changing nature of early adulthood, in conjunction with a team of investigators from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Princeton, Michigan, Chicago, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Penn State, Washington, and others). The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant. 2002-2007 Principal Investigator, "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles [IIMMLA]” (mixed-methods project involving large-scale surveys, in-depth oral histories, and targeted ethnographies in five-county area, in collaboration with a team of colleagues from UCI and UCLA). Russell Sage Foundation Research Grants. 2000-2006 Principal Investigator, "The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study” (3rd follow-up survey of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study [CILS]). Russell Sage Foundation Grants, 2000-03; and National Science Foundation Grant, 2004-05. 2001-2006 Principal Investigator, "Transitions to Adulthood in the Second Generation: A Comparative Qualitative Study” (in-depth interviews/oral histories with a subsample of young adults from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study). MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy, Research Grant. 1997-1999 Principal Investigator, “National Survey of Immigration Scholars [NASIS]” (first nationwide survey of immigration scholars across social science disciplines, principally sociology, anthropology, history, political science and economics). Social Science Research Council International Migration Program, and Russell Sage Foundation. 1991-1998 Principal Investigator, "Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study [CILS]” (comparative surveys in Southern California and South Florida of large samples of immigrant youth and their parents. Research Grants from the Andrew W. Mellon (1991-1996), and Russell Sage Foundations (1994-1996, 1997-98). [In collaboration with Alejandro Portes; South Florida project funded separately via the Spencer, Russell Sage, and National Science Foundations.] 1992-1993 Director, "Immigrant Students in California Public Schools in the 1990s" (multidisciplinary and comparative research project on the challenge of educating Mexican and other foreign- born children in the California public schools, drawing upon the latest empirical research). Ford Foundation and University of California Latino Research Program. 1990-1992 Principal Investigator, "Perinatal Risks and Outcomes Among Low-Income Immigrants" (comparative analyses of in-depth data set to identify direct and indirect effects of sociocultural and biomedical risk factors on perinatal morbidity and mortality among thousands of low-income foreign-born and native-born women receiving CPP prenatal services in San Diego County during the late 1980s). U.S. DHHS Division of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Research Grant. 3 1990-1992 Principal Investigator, "Immigrant Students in San Diego: School Contexts and Determinants of Educational Achievement Among LEP/FEP Language Minorities" [comparative study of the impacts of new immigrant students on local schools, and of achievement and attrition outcomes among students in San Diego schools who speak a language other than English at home]. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Field Initiated Studies Program Research Grant. 1987-1989 Co-Principal Investigator, "Infant Mortality Among Southeast Asian Refugees" (quantitative analyses of 1978-1985 linked birth-death vital statistics records from
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