Carola Suárez-Orozco

Elected to the National Academy of Education (2016)
Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Best Edited Book Award (2016) [for Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants]
Chair, American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force on Immigration (2010 to 2012)
Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship (2009/10) [Princeton, NJ]
Virginia & Warren Stone Award — Harvard University Press Outstanding Book on Education and Society (2007) [for Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
American Psychological Association Presidential Citation (2006) [for research and contribution to understanding of immigrant youth and families]
Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Best Book Award (1996) [for Transformations: Immigration, Family Life & Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents]

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego
M.A., Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University
A.B., Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Yoshikawa, H., Suárez-Orozco, C. & Gonzalez, R., G. (2016). Unauthorized Status and Youth Development in the United States: Consensus Statement for the Society on Research on Adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence. doi:10.1111/jora.12272
Suárez-Orozco, C., Katsiaficas, D., Birchall, O., Alcantar, A. M., Hernandez, E., Garcia, Y., Michikyan, M., Cerda, J., & Teranishi, R. (2015). Undocumented undergraduates on college campuses: Understanding their challenges, assets, and what it takes to make an UndocuFriendly campus. Harvard Education Review, 85(3),427-463.
Suárez-Orozco, C., Casanova, S., Martin, M., Katisaficas, D., Cuellar, V., Dias, S., & Smith, N. (2015). Toxic rain in the classroom: Classroom interpersonal microaggressions. Educational Researcher, 44(3),151-160.
Suárez-Orozco, C., Hernández, M. G., & Casanova, S. (2015). “It’s sort of my calling”: The civic engagement and social responsibility of Latino immigrant-origin young adults. Research in Human Development, 12(1-2), 84–99.
Suárez-Orozco, C., Bang H. J., & Kim, H. Y. (2010). “I felt like my heart was staying behind:” Psychological implications of immigrant family separations & reunifications. Journal of Adolescent Research, 21(2), 222-257.
Suárez-Orozco, C., Gaytán, F. X., Bang, H. J., O’Connor, E., Pakes, J., & Rhodes, J. (2010). Academic trajectories of newcomer immigrant youth. Developmental Psychology, 46(3) 602-618.