10:12 a.m., April 10, 2007--Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, will give a talk, “Latinos, Immigration and the Remaking of America,” at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 18, in 130 Smith Hall. A book signing and light refreshments will follow the presentation.

A prominent scholar in the areas of anthropology and cultural psychology, Suárez-Orozco will discuss immigration, including its myths and legitimate concerns. He also will address how immigration issues affect the fast-growing Latino population in the United States. The lecture is presented by UD's Office of Latino and Latin American Heritage.

Suárez-Orozco is a former tenured professor of human development and psychology and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Culture, both at Harvard University. He and Carola Suárez-Orozco, chairperson of the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education and codirector of Immigration Studies, cofounded the Harvard Immigration Projects in 1997 and began codirecting the largest study ever funded in the history of the National Science Foundation's cultural anthropology division--a comparative, interdisciplinary and longitudinal study of Asian, Afro-Caribbean and Latino immigrant and refugee children in American society. The results of the study will be published in a book, Moving Stories: Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth, which will be published later this year by the Harvard University Press.

Suárez-Orozco has authored many scholarly essays, books and edited volumes, including: The Children of Immigration, coauthored with Carola Suárez-Orozco; The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader, coedited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin; Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium, coedited with Desirée Qin-Hilliard; Latinos: Remaking America, coedited with Mariela Paez; and the six-volume Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration, coedited with Carola Suárez-Orozco and Desiree Qin-Hilliard.

For more info, visit [www.udel.edu/LHO/index_files/Events2007.html].