Susan Eva Eckstein
Professor of International Relations and Sociology
Susan Eva Eckstein is a professor of sociology and of international relations at Boston University Pardee School. Her research focuses research on Latin America and Latin American immigration. She has written extensively on Mexico, Cuba, and Bolivia, and, in recent years, on immigration and its impact across borders as well as on immigration policy. She has written and edited books on the urban poor, the impacts of revolutions, social movements, and social rights. On Cuba, her books have focused on the Castro-led revolution, Cuban immigrants, and how they have transformed Miami and influenced U.S. foreign policy, and U.S. Cuban immigration policy since the revolution. Her most recently published book is titled Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America )Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Eckstein is the author of four books, most recently of The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland, and editor/co-editor of another four books in English (most recently of How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands [co-authored]). She has also published two books in Spanish and authored about seven dozen articles, winning several awards for her publications. She has held grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for World Order, a Mellon-MIT grant, the Ford Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association and of the New England Council on Latin America; held numerous other positions in those two societies as well as in the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society; and served on the editorial boards of about a dozen journals and press editorial boards.
Professor Eckstein’s areas of expertise include urbanization, immigration, poverty, rights and injustices, political economy of developing countries, and social movements in third world countries.
