Marta Tienda
 

Doctor of Humane Letters, Lehman College, May, 2003
 
Named one of the "80 Elite Hispanic Women of 2003" in the US, Hispanic Business Magazine, April, 2003
 
Outstanding Graduate Alumnus of the Year, The University of Texas, 2002 - 2003
 
President, Population Association of America, 2002
 
Alejandro Portes
 
Distinguished Scholarship Award for best book, American Sociological Association, 2002
 
W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki Award for best book, International Migration Section, ASA, 2002
 
Member, National Academy of Sciences
 
President, American Sociological Association, 1998-1999
 
Sara Curran
 
Inaugural Graduate Mentoring Award, 2002
 
Junior and Senior Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Sociology Department, 2002
 
Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award, August 2001
 
Burton Singer
 
Coordinator, Malaria Task Force, UN Millennium Project, United Nations, 2002 -
 
Chair, National Research Council Panel on Future Directions for Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH, 1999 - 2002
 
Member, National Academy of Sciences
 
Mindel C. Sheps Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mathematical Demography, Population Association of America, 1994

 

 
Program Administrator

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and from 1997-2002 served as director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is co-author of The Color of Opportunity: Pathways to Family, Work, and Welfare in the Inner City (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and The Hispanic Population of the United States (Russell Sage, 1987); and co-editor of Youth in Cities: A Cross-National Perspective (Cambridge, 2002), Divided Opportunities: Poverty, Minorities and Social Policy (Plenum, 1988), and Hispanics in the U.S. Economy (Academic, 1985). She has published over 100 scholarly papers in academic journals and edited collections, in addition to numerous research bulletins and articles for a lay audience.  She holds a BA in Spanish from Michigan State University and a MA and Ph.D., both in Sociology, from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, she received an honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences from The Ohio State University.
 

Program Coordinators

Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. He has formerly taught at Johns Hopkins University, where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences; Duke University, and the University of Texas-Austin. In 1997, he was elected president of the American Sociological Association and served in that capacity in 1998-99. Born in Havana, Cuba, he came to the United States in 1960. He was educated at the University of Havana, Catholic University of Argentina, and Creighton University. He received his M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Portes is the author of some 200 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology.


Sara Curran is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1994. Curran researches internal migration in developing countries, family demography, environment and population, and gender. She is writing a book, Shifting Boundaries, Transforming Lives: Globalization, Gender and Family Dynamics in Thailand, which analyzes how migration and education transformed Thai society between 1984-2000. With a grant from the Mellon Foundation, she is collaborating with colleagues from ICRW and IPSR to research adolescent migration in Thailand. Curran recently edited a special issue of Ambio where contributors address population, consumption and environment research, especially the impact of human migrants upon coastal ecosystems.
 

Burton Singer is Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs and Professor of Demography and Public Affairs at Princeton University. His research interests include the demography and biology of aging, mind/body health and its underlying mechanisms, and tropical public health. Formerly chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and professor of economics and statistics at Yale University, he has served as chair of the National Research Council Committee on National Statistics and as chair of the Steering Committee for Social and Economic Research in the World Health Organization. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and was a Guggenheim fellow in 1981-82. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.