Princeton University Department of Sociology December 2008 CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Alejandro Portes BIRTHPLACE: Havana, Cuba BIRTHDATE: October 13, 1944 CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizen by naturalization, May 1968 OFFICE ADDRESS: Department of Sociology Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1010 Telephone: 609-258-4436 Fax: 609-258-1520 EDUCATION: University of Havana (1959-60) Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires (1963) Bachelor of Arts, Summa cum laude, Creighton University (1965) Master of Arts, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1967) Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1970) MAJOR AREAS OF PH.D. TRAINING: Social Change and Development Research Methodology Social Psychology Political Sociology 2 HONORS: . National Academy of Sciences Annual Award for Scientific Reviewing, Social and Political Sciences (2008) . Belle van Zuylen Visiting Chair, University of Utrecht, Holland (2008-10) . Plenary Session: “The Contributions of Alejandro Portes to the Knowledge of Immigration.” Fourth annual conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Place, University of Miami (2008) . Senior Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2007-10) . Editorial Board, American Sociological Review (2006-10) . Editorial Board, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2005- ) . Doctor in Educational Sciences, honoris causa, University of Genova (Italy) (2004) . Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation, American Sociological Association (2002) . William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki Distinguished Scholarship Award (Legacies), International Migration Section, American Sociological Association (2002) . Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2001) . William H. Sewell Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001) . Walker-Ames Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Seattle (1999) . Distinguished Alumnus Award, Creighton University (1999) . President of the American Sociological Association (1998-99) . Distinguished Career Award, Section on International Migration, American Sociological Association (1998) . Doctor in Humane Letters, honoris causa, New School for Social Research (1998) . Doctor in Science, honoris causa, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998) . Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998) . Spencer Foundation Senior Scholar Award (1997) . Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami (1997) . John Dewey Chair in the School of Arts and Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University (1988-96) . Anthony Leeds Award for best book in urban anthropology (City on the Edge), Society for Urban Anthropology, American Anthropological Association (1995) . Robert E. Park Award for best book in urban sociology (City on the Edge), Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association (1995) . Elected to the Council of the American Sociological Association (1993-96) . Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation (1992-93) . Patricia and Phillip Frost Distinguished Visiting Professor, Florida International University (1988-91) . President, Section on Political Economy of the World System, American Sociological Association (1985-86) 3 . Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California - San Diego (1984-85) . Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1980-81) . Elected to Sociological Research Association (1980) . International Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (1972-73) . The Manford Kuhn Award, Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines (1967) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (PRESENT): . Director, Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University (1999-2007) . Member, Inter-departmental Committee, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University (2006-09) . Faculty associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University . Member, National Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program . Member, Scientific Committee, Institute of Advanced Studies of the Community of Madrid (2007- ) . Member, Advisory Board, Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society. Oxford University (2003- ) . Principal Investigator, “Determinants of Educational and Occupational Success among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants”, project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2005-2008) . Principal Investigator, “Transnational Organizations, Community Development, and Immigrant Political Incorporation”, project supported by the MacArthur Foundation (2004-05) and Russell Sage Foundation (2005- 08) . Principal Investigator, “Immigration and the Health System”, project supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2007-10) . Principal Investigator, “Latin American Institutions and Development: A Comparative Study”, project supported by Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies (2005-2006) and the National Science Foundation (2007-10) . Principal Investigator, “The Second Generation in Spain”, project supported by the Spencer Foundation (2007-10) . Editorial Boards: . REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE SOCIOLOGIA (2008- ) . AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW (2006-10) . PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (2005-2009) . REVISTA MIGRACIONES (2005- ) . ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES (2004- ) . INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW (2001- ) . GLOBAL NETWORKS (2000- ) . STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2000- ) 4 . REVISTA MEXICANA DE SOCIOLOGIA (1999- ) . JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES (1998 - ) . ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES (1995- ) SELECTED PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (2003-2008): . Chair, Department of Sociology, Princeton University (2003-06) . Chair, Visiting Review Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan (2007) . Visiting Professor, National University General Sarmiento, Argentina (August 2006) . Member, International Committee on Migration and Development, Social Science Research Council (2006-07) . Visiting Professor, Institute de Sciences Politiques, Paris (2005) . Principal Investigator, “Children of Immigrants, the Adaptation Process of the Second Generation,” project supported by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation (1991-2006) . Co-principal Investigator, “Latin American Urbanization in the late Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study,” project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2002-2006) PRESENT POSITION: Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton University (2003 - ) PAST AND VISITING POSITIONS: Professor of Sociology, Princeton University (1997-2002) Visiting Fellow, Oxford University (2000) Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Miami (1997) John Dewey Professor of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University (1988-1996) Professor of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University (1980-1987) Visiting Professor, Latin American School of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador (1990-92) Frost Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Florida International University (1988-91) Visiting Professor of Rural Sociology and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1986) Professor of Sociology, Duke University (1975-80) Program Advisor for the Social Sciences, The Ford Foundation-Brazil (1976-77) Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Brasilia (1976) Associate Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin (1973-75) Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin (1971-75) Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970-71) 5 Lecturer in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1969-70) RECENT LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (2006-2008): “Divided or Convergent Loyalties: Immigrant Organizations and the Political Incorporation Process in the United States.” Conference on the State of the Art: Latin American Diasporas, Queen Mary University and London Institute of the Americas (December 2008) “Immigration and Social Change: A Conceptual Reflection,” Ramon Areces Foundation, Madrid (October 2008) “Social Capital and Immigration,” Complutense University of Madrid (October 2008) “Methodological Problems in the Study of the Immigrant Second Generation,” Complutense University of Madrid (October 2008) “Immigration and the Health System,” keynote address to the Research Workshop on Migration and Health, University of California – San Diego (October 2008) “Paths toward Immigration Reform,” Panel on “Educate the Vote,” Cornell University (September 2008) “Migration and National Development,” Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (September 2008) “Migration and Social Change: A Conceptual Reflection,” Distinguished Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar campus (August 2008) “Enclaves and Middleman Minorities,” session on Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective, meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston (August 2008) “Latin American Institutions and Development: A Comparative Study,” keynote address, 20th annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. San Jose, Costa Rica (July 2008) “Migration and Social Change,” keynote address to the conferences on Theorizing Key Migration Debates and Theories of Migration and Social Change, Oxford University (June 2008) “International Migration and National Development: A Review of their Interrelationships,” Ethnic and Racial Studies annual lecture, City University of London (May 2008) “Bridging the Gap: The