Alex Stepick, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.
Dr. Stepick's research interests include social inequalities, immigration, diaspora, race and ethnicity, urban studies, and Mexico and the Caribbean. He was the director of the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute (IEI) at the Center for Labor Research and Studies at Florida International University. He was also the acting director of the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP). Previously, he was the director of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at FIU.
Dr. Stepick has written eight books and over fifty articles, focusing primarily on Miami. His book with Alejandro Portes, City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (1993), won two national awards, the Robert Park Award for the best book in urban sociology and the Anthony Leeds Award for the best book in urban anthropology. The American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology awarded him the Margaret Mead Award for his work with Haitian refugees. He has been a Fulbright fellow twice and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York.
Professor Stepick earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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