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Guillermina Jasso, PhD Professor, Department of Sociology New York University Dr. Guillermina Jasso (PhD, Johns Hopkins) is Professor of Sociology at New York University. She was the founding director of the Methods Workshop at New York University (1991-1997) and of the Theory Workshop at the University of Iowa (1988-1991)as well as a co-founder of the Life Course Center at the University of Minnesota. She served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1977-1979) and as Director of Research for the U.S. Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (1979-1980). Professor Jasso’s research interests are theory, justice, status, migration, mathematical methods for theory building and factorial survey methods for empirical analysis. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals on these topics. Currently she is Co-Principal Investigator of the New Immigrant Survey, the first national longitudinal survey of immigrants in the United States. Professor Jasso was elected to the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and to the Sociological Research Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000) and is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). She serves on the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. |
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