Dear RSF:
 
Please join us next Monday, March 18, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar Mary Waters, “Migration and Integration in an Era of Climate Change”.
 
Waters is the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Sociology, as well as MAs in both Sociology and Demography, all from the University of California, Berkeley. Her BA is in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins. She was Chair of the Sociology Department at Harvard for many years (2001-5, 2007, 2013-14 & 2016-17) and served as Interim Director of Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies (2020-21). Among her many honors, she has received a commendation from Harvard for Extraordinary Teaching (2020), the winner of the Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Research (2014-17), and she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. Waters is the author of more than a dozen books. One of her co-published Russell Sage books, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Harvard University Press, 1999) won multiple awards, including from the Eastern Sociology Society, the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association. Her most recent work was the as co-editor of the 2nd Edition of The Art and Science of Social Research (W.W. Norton, 2021).
 
Waters is a former chair of RSF’s board of trustees, co-author of the RSF book Inheriting the City (2009) co-editor of the RSF books The New Race Question (2002) and Becoming New Yorkers (2005), and a recipient of multiple research awards from the foundation. She chaired a 2015 study on immigrant integration in the U.S. conducted by the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee and supported in part by RSF.