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CURRICULUM VITAE (September 22, 2020) Rubén G CURRICULUM VITAE (September 22, 2020) Rubén G. Rumbaut Present Position: Distinguished Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine E-mail: [email protected] UCI website: http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4999 Google Scholar Citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=laF6r2QAAAAJ Personal Information: Place of Birth: La Habana, Cuba Languages: Spanish and English (fluent in both) Formal Education: Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts: Ph.D. 1978 (Sociology) M.A. 1973 (Sociology) San Diego State University, San Diego, California: M.A. 1969-71 (Sociology) Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri: B.A. 1969 (Sociology-Anthropology) Academic and Professional Appointments: 2002-present Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine; Affiliated Faculty, School of Education; Department of Criminology, Law and Society; Department of Chicano/Latino Studies; and Department of Language Science 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City 2004-present Faculty Affiliate, Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University 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 Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego Professional Honors, Awards, Keynotes: 2019 Jury, Premio Casa de Las Américas, La Habana, Cuba (premier literary prize in Latin America) 2017 Julián Samora Distinguished Career Award (Latina/o Sociology), American Sociological Association 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City 2015 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2015 Named Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine (1/1/2015) 2014 Distinguished Career Award (International Migration), American Sociological Association 2013 Elected to the National Academy of Education 2013 Nominated for the Vice-Presidency of the American Sociological Association 2010 Inaugural C. S. Fisher Award for Excellence in Contexts, American Sociological Association 2006-2009 Elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association 2002-2008 Elected to the Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences 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 1998-2006 Elected to the Board of Overseers, General Social Survey 1998 Elected to the Sociological Research Association 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City 1994-2004 Founding Member, Committee on International Migration, Social Science Research Council 1993-1995 Founding Chair, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association 1990 Immigrant America selected as a “Centennial Book” by the University of California Press 2020 Jane Menken Distinguished Lecture in Population Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder 2017 Conferencia Inaugural (Keynote), IV Coloquio Internacional, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba 2017 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture, American Educational Research Assn., San Antonio 2015 Keynote Address to the annual meetings of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Denver 2014 Keynote Address to International Conference, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania 2013 Keynote Address to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University 2012 Invited Address to the Global Salzburg Seminar’s American Studies Symposium, Austria 2012 Plenary Address to the annual meetings of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans 2011 6th Annual Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life, University of Chicago 2010 Keynote Address to Scribani International Conference, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid 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 2 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 2016-2017 Spencer Foundation, Research Grant Award 2002-2015, 1994-2002 Russell Sage Foundation, Research Grant Awards 2001-2010 MacArthur Foundation, Research Grant Awards 2004-2005 National Science Foundation, Research Grant Award 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 1975 Exceptional Performance Citation, City of San Diego Police Department (First ever awarded to a civilian in San Diego Police Department history) Research Grants: 2016-2017 (with Cynthia Feliciano), “The New Second Generation: Education, Obstacles, and Opportunities.” Spencer Foundation Research Grant. 2015-2016 (with Cynthia Feliciano), “The New Second Generation in Middle Adulthood.” CORCL Multi-Investigator Research Grant, UCI Academic Senate Council. 2014-2015 Principal Investigator (with Cynthia Feliciano), “The Second Generation in Middle Adulthood” (follow up of Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study [CILS], San Diego subsample). Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant. 2013-2014 Principal Investigator (with Enrique Martínez Curiel), “A Comparative Longitudinal Study of Educational Attainment and the Transition to Adulthood in Mexico and the United States / Estudio Longitudinal de Logros Educativos y la Transición a la Adultez en México y Estados Unidos.” UC MEXUS-CONACYT Research Grant. 2009-2012 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). John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant. 2002-2008 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, with a multidisciplinary team from UCI and UCLA). Russell Sage Foundation Research Grants. 3 2000-2006 Principal Investigator, "The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study” (3rd wave of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study [CILS], San Diego). 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 CILS young adults). MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, 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
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