Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Immigration and globalization, cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and culture and education

Activities & Honors:
Professor Suárez-Orozco 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 Carola Suárez-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.

Professor Suárez-Orozco lectures widely throughout the world. In the summer of 2004 he was invited by the Mexican Secretary of State and the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences to deliver a keynote address on Globalization and Education. In the summer of 2003, the US Embassy in Germany arranged a lecture tour with major presentations to German academics and senior policy makers in Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, and Munich. In 1995 and again in 1997, he was elected Directeur d'Etudes Associe at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. In 1996, he delivered the Norbert Elias Lecture at the Amsterdam School for Social Sciences in the Netherlands. He has been Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Barcelona (Spain), Visiting Professor of Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.

Professor Suárez-Orozco was educated in public schools in Latin America and at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his A.B. (Psychology, 1980), M.A. (Anthropology, 1981) and Ph. D. (Anthropology, 1986). Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, winner of multiple honors and awards, was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2004. In September 2004, Professor Suárez-Orozco 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.

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.
• Suárez-Orozco, M. and Suárez-Orozco, C. (2007). Immigration: Youth Respond to Change. Harvard Law & Policy Review. http://hlpronline.com/2007/04/suarez-orco_01.html
• Suárez-Orozco, C., Suárez-Orozco, M. and Baolin Qin-Hillard, D. (Eds.) (2005). The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader. New York: Routledge.
• Suárez-Orozco, M. and Páez, Mariela (Eds.), (2002). Latinos: Remaking America. Berkeley: University and University of California Press.
• Suárez-Orozco, M. and Qin-Hilliard, D. (Eds) (2004). Globalization: Culture and Education in the Millennium. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press and Ross Institute.
• 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.
• Robben, A. C. G. M. and Suárez-Orozco, M. (Eds.), (2000). Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Suárez-Orozco, M. (Ed.), (1998). Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press.
• Suárez-Orozco C. and Suárez-Orozco, M. (1995) Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1995.