Sociology Annual Lecture Series
Reflections of an Accidental Sociologist
A talk by Rubén G. Rumbaut
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
2-4 p.m.
Via Zoom
The Department of Sociology invites you to the inaugural lecture series event with
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D., distinguished professor of sociology, University of California,
Irvine. Sociology scholarship recipients will be presented as well.
About Rumbaut
Rumbaut first came to San Diego as a student in the summer of 1968, to participate in a regional project directed by an SDSU sociologist — which proved a turning point — and returned as an SDSU graduate student from 1969-71.
In San Diego he carried out studies of the police in the 1970s (which formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation), and of Southeast Asian refugees in the 1980s, during years of a “new immigration” which saw an extraordinary demographic transformation of California.
Since 1991 he has directed the landmark Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study
(CILS), originally based in the SDSU Department of Sociology, which has followed the
trajectories of a multiethnic representative sample from mid adolescence to middle
adulthood, and which will form the focus of the second half of this inaugural talk.
Watch
“Interview with Rubén Rumbaut, sociology professor”
UCI, School of Social Sciences
“AERA 2017: WAllace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Rubén Rumbaut”
American Educational Research Association
Read and Listen
“Snapshots of a Researcher’s Life: Rubén G. Rumbaut”
Inter-Univesrity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Read
Feliciano, Cynthia and Rubén G. Rumbaut. 2020. “Coming of Age before the Great Expulsion: The Story of the CILS-San Diego Sample 25 Years Later” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43(1): 199-217.
The event is cosponsored with the Department of Chicano and Chicana Studies and Department
of Political Science.