Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Globalization, Mass Migration and Inequality: Further Thoughts on Education in the Age of Vertigo
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the Wasserman Dean & Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences where he leads two academic departments, 16 research institutes, and two demonstration schools. His research primarily focuses on conceptual and empirical problems in the areas of cultural psychology and psychological anthropology with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education. In 2012, he founded the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families at UCLA, which he co-directs.
Suárez-Orozco is an award-winning writer whose books are widely published by major university presses including Harvard, U.C., and NYU Presses. His scholarly papers range in discipline and languages and appear in major journals in the U.S. and around the world. An engaged public intellectual, Suárez-Orozco is a regular contributor to national and international media outlets where he often comments on Latino, immigrant families and children, and assimilation and education issues.
In 2004, Suárez-Orozco was elected to the National Academy of Education, and in 2006, he was awarded the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico’s highest honor to a foreign national. He served as special advisor for education, peace, and justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He authored briefs for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis' main scientific advisory board. In 2014 Suárez-Orozco was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and appointed as the inaugural Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies.
A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Suárez-Orozco earned his A.B. in psychology, M.A. in anthropology, and Ph.D. in anthropology at U.C. Berkeley. At Harvard University, he served as the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture (2001-2004), and co-founded and co-directed the Harvard Immigration Project in 1997. Prior to arriving at UCLA, Suárez-Orozco was the inaugural Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU.