BU Sociology

BIO AND RESEARCH
Susan Eckstein is a specialist on urbanization, immigration, poverty, rights and injustices, and social movements in the context of Third World Countries. She has also written on agrarian reform, comparative development, and effects of revolution. Her main focus is on Latin America. She has written most extensively on Mexico, Cuba, and Bolivia. Currently she am working on immigration and its impact across borders, focusing on the Cuban experience in particular. She has also done some writing on working class volunteerism and suburban ethnicity in the U.S.

Professor Eckstein is the author of three books (in multiple editions) and editor of another three books in English. She has further published two books in Spanish and authored about seven dozen articles, winning several awards for her publications. She has held grants and fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for World Order, a Mellon-MIT grant, the Ford Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association and of the New England Council on Latin America; held numerous other positions in the two societies as well as in the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society; and served on the editorial boards of about a dozen journals and press editorial boards.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS
"Community as Gift-Giving: Collective Roots of Volunteerism" American Sociological Review 66 (2001). Winner of the 2002 Robert E. Park Best Article Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the ASA.

Struggles for Social Justice in Latin America (co-editor) (Routledge 2003)

What Justice? Whose Justice: Fighting for Fairness in Latin America (co-editor) (University of California Press, 2003).

Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro (Princeton University Press 1994, Routledge 2003)

Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements (ed.) (University of California 1989, 2001)

The Poverty of Revolution: The State and Urban Poor in Mexico (Princeton University Press 1977, 1988)

The Impact of Revolution: A Comparative Analysis of Mexico and Bolivia (SAGE 1976)

El Estado y la Pobreza Urbana en Mexico (Siglo XXI 1982, 1999)

Poder y Protesta Popular: Movimientos Sociales Latinoamericanos (Siglo XXI)

WORKING PAPERS
Diasporas and Dollars: Transnational Ties and the Transformation of Cuba. Working Paper #16 (February 2003), Inter-University Committee on International Migration, Center for International Studies, MIT (http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration; included in the digital library of Forced Migration Online, www.forcedmigration.org).

Cuban-American Cuba Visits: Public Policy, Private Practices (co-authored). Working Paper (January 2001). Inter-University Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations and Forced Migration, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/migration).

On Deconstructing Immigrant Generations: Cohorts and the Cuban Émigré Experience. Working Paper #97, Center for Comparative International Studies. San Diego, CA: University of California at San Diego, May 2004. (http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/publications/working_papers.htm)