Jorge Duany
Visiting Professor of Sociology
(University of Puerto Rico)
Biographical Note
Professor Jorge Duany will be a visiting scholar at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies during the fall 2009 term and will offer a graduate seminar in Sociology on "Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean".
He is Professor of Anthropology of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. During the spring semester of 2007, he was appointed the Bacardí Family Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He previously served as Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales and as Visiting Professor of Latino Studies at the University of Michigan. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, specializing in Anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University. His main research interests are Caribbean migration, ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism, as well as popular culture among Latinos in the United States. He has published extensively on these topics in professional journals and academic books in Puerto Rico, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Since February 2003 he writes a monthly editorial column for the newspaper El Nuevo Día.
08/11/2009
Courses Offered This Academic Year
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Sociology 222 ( Fall 2009 ) |
Transnational Migration from the Hispanic Caribbean | Catalog #71658 |
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| Professor Duany's University of Puerto Rico web page |
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| David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies |
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