| Office: |
School of Public Affairs
Baruch College - City University of New York
17 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10010 |
| Bio: |
She is the author or editor of nine books, the most recent being From Ellis Island
to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (winner of the 2000 Theodore
Saloutos Book Award), Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (2001),
a completely revised edition of New Immigrants in New York (2001), and Immigration
Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000, edited with Rub
én Rumbaut and Steven Gold). Among her other activities, she is a member of
the Social Science Research Council Committee on International Migration, past
president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, and current president of
the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. Among her
current activities, she is editing two books: one on migration and anthropology and
another (with George Fredrickson) on race, ethnicity and migration, then and now.
She is also the head of the social effects working group at the Russell Sage
Foundation, which is investigating the impact of September 11th on New York City. |
