Rubén G. Rumbaut is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the founding chair of the Section on International Migration of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and a member of the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences, the Committee on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council, and the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood. From 2000-01 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City in 1997-98. Over the past three decades he has directed several major empirical studies of the adaptation of immigrants and refugees in the United States, including the principal surveys of refugees from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia who resettled in the United States after the Indochina War, and, since 1991, the landmark Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Among his books are Immigrant America: A Portrait, and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation, which won the ASA's awards for Distinguished Scholarship and for best book in the immigration field. A native of Havana, Cuba, Dr. Rumbaut received a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.