Guillermina Jasso is a sociologist who has significantly contributed to the

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of immigration to

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. Jasso is currently the Silver professor of Sociology at

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where she was formerly Chair of the Department of Sociology. Jasso's research addresses

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, inequality and stratification, mathematical methods for theoretical analysis, and survey methods for empirical analysis.

Academia

She received her

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in Sociology and Philosophy from Our Lady of the Lake College in 1962, and in 1970 she received a

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from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at

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. Jasso received her Ph.D. from the Department of Social Relations at

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in 1974.CurriculumVitae –February2019
GUILLERMINA JASSO Jasso has been an assistant professor at

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and

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, and

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. Additionally, she has been a professor at

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, and presently at New York University. From 1987 to 1992, Jasso was the Founding Director of the Program in Theoretical Analysis at the

. Then, from 1992 to 1997, Jasso was the Founding Director of the Methods Workshop at New York University. She has been a Fellow of the Collegiate Institute for Values and Science at the University of Michigan since 1981. Additionally, she has been a Fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality at

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since 2006. Jasso has been a member of the Society of Fellows at New York University since 2007, an External Research Fellow at the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at

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since 2013, and a Fellow of the

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since 2017 Jasso has served as Chair of several sections of the

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, including Theory, Methodology, International Migration,

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, and the Rationality and Society Section. In 2015, Jasso won the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award given by the American Sociological Association for a career of distinguished contributions to sociological methodology. She has been elected to the Executive Council of the Sociological Research Association (2018-2021), where she will serve as President in her final year. Jasso is a frequent collaborator with

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. Jasso's Erdős number is 3.

Notes

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