Mary C. Waters is currently professor and chair of the Sociology Department at Harvard University. Waters' research is in the fields of race and ethnicity, immigration and demography. She is the author of numerous important books and articles, including most recently Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities, which won the Mirra Komorovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society for the best book published in 1999-2000, the 2001 Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, the 2001 Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the International Migration Section of the ASA, the 1999 Best Book Award of the Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics of the American Political Science Association, and the 1999-2000 Distinguished Book Award of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. Additionally, she is the co-editor (with historian Reed Ueda of Tufts University) of The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965, which will be published by Harvard University Press. This handbook will be the update to the landmark Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Additionally, she is currently co-director of The New York Second Generation Project, which examines the lives of the new second generation-young adults whose parents were immigrants to the United States, contrasted with samples of comparable native born whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans.
