Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is the ninth permanent and current chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston, and is the first Latino to lead a campus in the Massachusetts public university system. He is the former inaugural UCLA Wasserman Dean at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Pope Francis appointed Suárez-Orozco to the Executive Committee of Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in January 2018.

Early life and education
Suárez-Orozco is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and immigrated to the United States at age 17. After studying in community college, he earned a BA in psychology (1980), and a master’s (1981) and PhD in anthropology (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
Suárez-Orozco served as a special adviser for education, peace, and justice to the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

He served as UCLA's Wasserman Dean of Education & Information Studies for eight years and raised an estimated $120 million in support of the school.

Suárez-Orozco served as the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University, and co-founded the Harvard Immigration Project with his wife, Carola Suárez-Orozco. He served as the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University.

His research topics include psychological anthropology and cultural psychology, with a focus on globalization, education, and migration.

Chancellor at UMass Boston
Suárez-Orozco became chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston in August 2020, announcing initiatives to move the university toward "becoming a leading anti-racist and health promoting public research university."

He created the position of special assistant to the chancellor for Black life. In July 2020, Suárez-Orozco and his wife, Carola, established the George Floyd Honorary Scholarship Fund.

Honors
•	Member of the Executive Committee, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Vatican (Appointed by Pope Francis, June 2019) •	Member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, The Vatican (Appointed by Pope Francis, January 2018) •	Great Immigrant/Great American, The Carnegie Corporation of New York (Elected July 4, 2018).” •	Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Elected April 2014). •	Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca (The Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle), 2006 •	Member of the National Academy of Education (Elected April 2004)

Books
Suárez-Orozco has co-authored and edited books published by Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, and others. His books include:

•	Central American Refugees and U.S. High Schools: A Psychosocial Study of Motivation and Achievement, 1989 •	Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents, 1996 •	Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1998 •	Children of Immigration, 2001 (The Developing Child) •	Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, 2001 •	Latinos: Remaking America, 2002 •	Globalization: Culture and Education in the Millennium, 2004 •	The New Immigration: An Interdisciplinary Reader, 2005 •	Learning in the Global Era: International Perspectives on Globalization and Education, 2007 •	Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, 2008 (Winner of the Stone Award for Best Book on Education) •	Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era, 2010 •	Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, 2011 •	Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice, 2016 (Multicultural Education Series) •	Humanitarianism and Mass Migration: Confronting the World Crisis, 2019