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Catherine Simpson Bueker, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Emmanuel College will be our guest speaker at League of Women Voters of Wellesley Fall Opening Meeting with a talk entitled "Beyond White Picket Fences: The 2020 Census and Wellesley’s Changing Demographics."
Members of the public are invited to attend in person (RSVP to Laura Brown-MacKinnon at LWVWellesley2 [at] gmail.com; note that masks are required) or via Zoom (click here to register for Zoom).
Catherine has taught at Emmanuel College in Boston for the past 15 years. She focuses on issues of race, ethnicity, immigration and civic engagement and has published books, chapters, essays, and peer-reviewed articles on those topics. Her research has been read and cited hundreds of times, including in the National Academies of Sciences report, The Integration of Immigrants into American Society (2015). Her books include From Immigrant to Naturalized Citizen (LFB Press 2006) and The Experiences of Women of Color in an Elite US Public School (Palgrave MacMillan 2017). Her articles have appeared in the journals The International Migration Review; Race, Ethnicity, and Education; The Journal of International Migration and Integration; and Contexts, among others. She has also published entries related to race and immigration in the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. Her current project focuses on the ways in which established Americans do or do not recognize and experience increasing diversity in their community. She has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Dr. Bueker holds a BA in American Studies from Cornell University and an MA and PhD in Sociology from Brown University.
Attendees might be interested in the following articles by Dr. Bueker:
