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Anthropologie / STEPICK, ALEX

Stepick

Position

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Health and Social
Inequalities, Portland State University
Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Fl.
Director, Research Institute for Social and Economic Policy (RISEP),
Center for Labor Economic Policy and Research, FIU
Director, Immigration & Ethnicity Institute, FIU.

Thèmes de recherche

Social Inequalities, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies, Mexico and Caribbean

1985-present Miami\'s inter-ethnic relations, ongoing fieldwork with African Americans, Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and white Americans.
1981-present Haitian migration, ongoing fieldwork in South Florida with Haitian migrants and trips to Haiti among recent Haitian immigrants, Haitian business community, political and economic conditions in Haiti.
1971-present Oaxaca, Mexico continuing research on social inequality, the urban poor, migration.

Prix et récompenses

1994 : Conrad Arensberg Award, Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Society, for Newcomers in the Workplace.
1993 : Anthony Leeds Award for Best Book in Urban Anthropology for City on the Edge.
1993 : Robert E. Park Award for Best Book in Urban Sociology for City on the Edge.
1989 : Excellence in Research Award, Florida International University.
1988 : Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for work on Haitian Refugees in the United States.
1988 : Distinguished Service Award from the Miami Haitian Community, La Nuit des Trophées.
1974 : Southwestern Anthropology Association, First Prize, Graduate Student Paper.
1973 : University of California at Irvine, Graduate Student Research Award.

Publications

Books

In press Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith: Haitian Religion in South Florida with Terry Rey. New York: New York University Press.
2009 Churches and Charity in The Immigrant City. Co-editors Sarah Mahler and Terry Rey. Rutgers University Press.
2005 Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America. Edited by Karen I. Leonard with Alex Stepick, Manuel A. Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Title,
Social & Behavioral Sciences for 2006
2003 This Land Is Our Land: Power and Interethnic Relations in Miami with Guillermo Grenier, Max Castro, and Marvin Dunn. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
2002 La Cabeza de Jano: La Desigualdad Social en Oaxaca (Translation and Revision of Social Inequality in Oaxaca). Arthur D. Murphy, Alex Stepick, Earl W. Morris, Mary Winter. Oaxaca, Mexico: Fondo Editorial de la Unidad de Proyectoc
Estratégicos, Instituto Estatal de Educación Públca de Oaxaca.
1998 Pride Against Prejudice: Haitians in the U.S. Allyn and Bacon Publishers.
1994 Newcomers in the Workplace. edited with Louise Lamphere and Guillermo Grenier. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
1993 City on the Edge: The Social Transformation of Miami with Alejandro Portes. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. Winner of the Anthony Leeds Award for Best Book in Urban Anthropology and the Robert E. Park
Award for Best Book in Urban Sociology.
1992 Miami Now edited with Guillermo Grenier. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press.
1991 Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change with A. Murphy. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.