I came to Cornell in 1989 following a decade and a half of research and teaching in New York City at the Center for Policy Research and Fordham University's Hispanic Research Center and Department of Sociology and Anthropology. At Cornell I have served as Director of the Population and Develpment Program, the Polson Institute for Global Development, and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology. Since 2010 I have been a team member of the Institute for the Social Sciences' interdisciplinary theme project: Immigration: Settlement, Integration and Membership (http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/1013/Immigrant_desc.html).