Carola Suárez-Orozco

Cultural psychology, academic engagement, immigrant families and youth, and identity formation.

Activities & Honors:
Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development and the Co-Director of Immigration Studies at NYU. She publishes widely in the areas of cultural psychology, academic engagement, immigrant families and youth, and identity formation. She is the author of Children of Immigration (with Marcelo Suárez- Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2001) and Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Stanford University Press, 1995). She and Marcelo Suárez -Orozco are also the co-editors of the six volume series entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The New Immigration (with Desirée Qin-Hillard, Routledge, 2001) as well as The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Routledge, 2005).

She has published on such topics as academic engagement, the role of the "social mirror" in identity formation, immigrant family separations, the role of mentors in facilitating positive development in immigrant youth, the gendered experiences of immigrant youth among many others. Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco & Irina Todorova,) is based on the findings from the LISA study was released by the Harvard University Press in early 2008.

Professor Suárez-Orozco received an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her seminal work on the cultural psychology of immigration in 2006. She was inducted into the New York Academy of Sciences in 2007.

Selected Publications:

• Suárez-Orozco, C., Suárez-Orozco, M., and Todorova, I., (2008). Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (2007). Marcelo Suárez-Orozco & Carola Suárez-Orozco. Immigration: Youth Respond to Change. Harvard Law & Policy Review. http://hlpronline.com/2007/04/suarez-orco_01.html.
• Green, G., Rhodes, J., Heitler-Hirsch, A. and Suárez-Orozco, C. (2007). Supportive Adult Relationships and the Academic Engagement of Latin American Immigrant Youth. Journal of School Psychology, 46(4), p. 393-412.
• Todorova, I. and Suárez-Orozco, C. (2007). Projecting. The Voices Of Mexican Origin Children. Research on Human Development. 3(4) p. 211-228.
• Gaytan, F., Carhill, A. and Suárez-Orozco, C. (2007). Understanding and Responding to the Needs of Newcomer Immigrant Youth. To appear in The Prevention Researcher, 14(4) p. 10.
• Suárez-Orozco, C. (2007). The Challenges of Immigrant Families. American Psychological Association Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs Communiqué. March.
• Suárez-Orozco, C., Suárez-Orozco, M. and Baolin Qin-Hillard, D. (Eds.) (2005). The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader. New York: Routledge.
• Suárez-Orozco, C., and Todorova, I. (Issue Eds.) (2003). Understanding the Social World of Immigrant Youth, Issue 100 — New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research (Gil Noam & Susanna Barry, Series Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Suárez-Orozco, C. and Todorova, I. (2003). The Social World of Immigrant Youth. In Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova (Issue Eds.). Understanding the Social World of Immigrant Youth, Issue 100 – New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research. Gil Noam & Susanna Barry (Series Eds.) (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.) p. 15-24.
• Suárez-Orozco, C., Todorova, I. and Louie, J. (2002). ‘Making Up For Lost Time:’ The Experience of Separation and Reunification Among Immigrant Families. Family Process. 41(4) p. 625-643.
• Suárez-Orozco, M., Suárez-Orozco, C. and Baolin Qin-Hillard, D. (Eds.) (2001). Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
• Suárez-Orozco, C. and Suárez-Orozco, M. (2001). Children of Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.