Alejandro Portes is professor of sociology at Princeton University and
faculty associate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. He formerly
taught at Johns Hopkins where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts
and Sciences, Duke University, and the University of Texas-Austin. In 1997
he held the Emilio Bacardi distinguished professorship at the University of
Miami. In the same year he was elected president of the American Sociological
Association. 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 MA and PhD from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.