# Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, the ninth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston, is a scholar best known for his research on immigration, education and globalization. He is the first Latino to lead a campus in the Massachusetts public university system. Prior to his return to the Commonwealth, Dr. Suárez-Orozco served as the inaugural UCLA Wasserman Dean at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.
Pope Francis appointed Suárez-Orozco to the Executive Committee of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in January 2018.

## Early life and education

Suárez-Orozco is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and immigrated to the United States at age 17. After studying in community college, he earned a BA in psychology (1980), and a master’s (1981) and PhD in anthropology (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley.

## Career

Suárez-Orozco served as a special adviser for education, peace, and justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
He served as UCLA's Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies for eight years and raised an estimated $120 million in support of the school.
At Harvard he was the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and co-founder of the Harvard Immigration Project with his wife, Carola Suárez-Orozco. At NYU he served as the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University.
His research topics include psychological anthropology and cultural psychology, with a focus on globalization, education, mass migration and climate change.

## Chancellor at UMass Boston

Suárez-Orozco became chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston in August 2020, announcing initiatives to move the university toward "becoming a leading anti-racist and health promoting public research university."
He created the position of special assistant to the chancellor for Black life. In July 2020, Suárez-Orozco and his wife, Carola, established the George Floyd Honorary Scholarship Fund.

## Honors

* Member of the Executive Committee, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Vatican (Appointed by Pope Francis, June 2019) • Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Vatican (Appointed by Pope Francis, January 2018) • Great Immigrant/Great American, The Carnegie Corporation of New York (Elected July 4, 2018).” • Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Elected April 2014).
* Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (The Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle), 2006 • Member of the National Academy of Education (Elected April 2004)

## Books

Suárez-Orozco has co-authored and edited books published by Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Columbia University Press and others. He is a co-author of the Planetary Climate Resilience protocol - the Pontifical Academies, signed by the Holy Father Pope Francis. His books include:
* Central American Refugees and U.S. High Schools: A Psychosocial Study of Motivation and Achievement, 1989 • Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents, 1996 • Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1998 • Children of Immigration, 2001 (The Developing Child) • Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, 2001 • Latinos: Remaking America, 2002 • Globalization: Culture and Education in the Millennium, 2004 • The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader, 2005 • Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education, 2007 • Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, 2008 (Winner of the Stone Award for Best Book on Education) • Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era, 2010 • Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, 2011 • Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice, 2016 (Multicultural Education Series) • Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World Crisis, 2019