is the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1986, and where she served as chair of the department from 2001-2005 and 2007. She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1978, an M.A. in Sociology (1981) and Demography (1983) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (1986) from U.C. Berkeley. She is the author, co-author or editor of numerous books and articles on immigration, ethnicity, race relations, and young adulthood, including Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty First Century (forthcoming, 2011); The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective (2010); Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (2008) (winner of the 2010 American Sociological Association Distinguished Publication Award). Her current research includes comparative work on the children of immigrants in the United States and Europe and a longitudinal study of the health, well being and spatial mobility of young adults who survived Hurricane Katrina.