Alejandro Portes
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Alejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He is currently head of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science. He also served as the president of American Sociological Association in 1999. His academic studies have focused on immigration to the United States and factors affecting the fates of immigrants and their children.
Portes has held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Science at Johns Hopkins University and and the Emilio Bacardi distinguished professorship at the University of Miami. He has also previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University.
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Wisconsin model Alejandro Portes was born in Peru in 1878.
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