Guillermina Jasso is a sociologist who has significantly contributed to the

demography Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examine ...

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

distributive justice Distributive justice concerns the Social justice, socially just Resource allocation, allocation of resources, goods, opportunity in a society. It is concerned with how to allocate resources fairly among members of a society, taking into account fa ...

inequality Inequality may refer to: * Inequality (mathematics), a relation between two quantities when they are different. * Economic inequality, difference in economic well-being between population groups ** Income inequality, an unequal distribution of i ...

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

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

. 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 Global Labor Organization since 2017 Jasso has served as chair of several sections of the

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, including Theory, Methodology, International Migration,

Social Psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...

, 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

Douglas Massey Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of sociology ...

. Jasso's

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is 3.

Notes

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