“By spanning the social sciences and the Americas in his research, Professor Edward Telles has helped increase understanding of how race and inequality interact.”
—Princeton University
About
Dr. Edward Telles is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and former professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Telles has reoriented the field of Sociology beyond the U.S. black-white paradigm through his research and writings on color, race and ethnicity globally, particularly in Latin America and for Latinos in the United States.
A recipient of numerous awards in the field of immigration and race, Telles’ work has been hailed as path-breaking. The principal investigator on the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA), his work has been closely empirical and based mostly on social surveys, several of which he collected.
Professor Telles’ work is well known in Latin America, and has been widely published in Spanish and Portuguese.
Email: e.telles@uci.edu
Upcoming Presentations:
“Afrodescendants and the Project on Race and Ethnicity in Latin America”; Race: Myths and Realities Conference. Latin American Studies, Bringham Young University. March 3.
“Durable Ethnicities” Pacific Sociological Association. March 19.
“Latin American Caste and Race” Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Conference. Furman University. April 7.
“A Comparative Look at Pigmentocracies and Ethno-Racial Relations: Brasil, USA, México” Latin American and Latinx Studies, Loyola University. April 8.
“Regional and Status Effects in Racial Classification in Brazil: Results from a Coarsened Exact Matching Analysis of Administrative Data” Population Association of America. May 6.
