Marcelo Suarez-Orozco

professor, Harvard Grad School of Ed

Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco was educated in public schools in Latin America and at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his AB (Psychology, 1980), MA (Anthropology, 1981) and Ph D. (Anthropology, 1986). His basic research is on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with a focus on the study of immigration and globalization. He is author of numerous scholarly essays, books, and edited volumes and over 100 scholarly papers appearing in international journals. He became a tenured professor of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard (in 1995) where he was appointed the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education (in 2001). In 1997 along with his wife Carola Suarez-Orozco, he co-founded the Harvard Immigration Projects and began to co-direct the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's Cultural Anthropology division a study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean, and Latino immigrant youth in American society. He is winner of multiple honors and awards and was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2004. In September 2004, he was appointed the first Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University where he also holds the title of University Professor. The Suarez-Orozco's are Co-Directors of Immigration Studies at NYU.