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Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is aCuban-American sociologist. He is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences,[1] theAmerican Philosophical Society,[2] and of the board of trustees and the Scientific Council at theIMDEA Social Sciences Institute. He also served as the president of theAmerican Sociological Association in 1999. His academic studies have focused onimmigration to the United States and factors affecting the fates of immigrants and their children. He has also done work on shack settlements in Latin America. His work is highly cited in the sub-fields of economic sociology, cultural sociology and race and ethnicity.[3]
Portes attended theUniversity of Havana (1959–1960), Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires (1963) and received hisBA fromCreighton University in 1965. He received hisMA in 1967 and PhD in 1970 in sociology from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.[4] Portes has held theJohn Dewey Chair in Arts and Science atJohns Hopkins University and the Emilio Bacardi distinguished professorship at theUniversity of Miami. He has also previously taught at theUniversity of Texas at Austin andDuke University. In 1993 his book ‘City on the Edge’[5] won awards for best book in urban and community sociology and in urban anthropology.[6] In 2002, he received the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from theAmerican Sociological Association forLegacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. In 2008, Portes was awarded theNAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from theNational Academy of Sciences.[7] He holds honorary degrees fromThe New School for Social Research, theUniversity of Genoa and theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 2019, Portes was awarded the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for career achievements in social sciences, the highest form of recognition of the Spanish Crown.[8]
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