Carola Suarez-Orozco

Carola Suarez-Orozco

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Professor of Applied Psychology, Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU

Phone: (212) 998-5282
Email: cso2@nyu.edu

• Applied Psychology

Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development and Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU http://education.nyu.edu/immigration/index.htm. Her appointment is in the department of Applied Psychology with an affiliation in Teaching and Learning. She is the Director of the School Psychology Program.

She publishes widely in the areas of cultural psychology, immigrant families and youth, academic trajectories of engagement and performance among immigrant adolescents, the role of the “social mirror” in identity formation, immigrant family separations, the role of mentors in facilitating positive development in immigrant youth, the gendered experiences of immigrant youth among many others.

She has authored Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco & Irina Todorova, Harvard University Press in 2008), Children of Immigration (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2001) and Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents (with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Stanford University Press, 1995). She has also co-edited a six volume series entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The New Immigration (with Desirée Qin-Hillard, Routledge, 2001) as well as The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Routledge, 2005).

In 1996 Professor Suárez-Orozco received the Society for Research in Adolescent’s Best Book on Social Policy Award (for Transformations) and in 2008 she received the Harvard University Press’ Virginia and Warren Stone Award for Best Book on Education (for Learning a New Land). In 2006, she was awarded an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her seminal work on the cultural psychology of immigration. She was inducted into the New York Academy of Sciences in 2007. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton for 2009/10.