Nancy Foner is an American sociologist, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at

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, and a published author. Foner is also a member of the

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. She has also held the professorships of Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at

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and also Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting professor of Equality and Justice at

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. Foner has served as president of the Eastern Sociological Society (2014–15), chair of the International Migration Section of the

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, and president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology. She is the daughter of Moe and Anne Foner, a sociology professor. She is the niece of Henry Foner and his wife Lorraine Lieberman, as well as older brothers (and twins) Jack D. and Philip S. Foner.

Publications

*From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000) *In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005) *Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson, 2004) *New Immigrants in New York (Columbia University Press, revised edition, 2001) *Islands in the city: West Indian Migration to New York (University of California Press, 2001) *and Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (edited with Ruben Rumbaut and Steven J. Gold, 2000). *Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (New York University Press, 2009) Books authored by Nancy Foner
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