Marta Tienda

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Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Texas, Austin, 1977. Interests: social demography, race and ethnic stratification, higher education, immigration.

Biographical Sketch

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and from 1997-2002 served as director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is co-author and co-editor of several books, including of The Hispanic Population of the United States (1987), Divided Opportunities (1988), The Color of Opportunity (2001), Youth in Cities (2002), Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms (2005), Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies (2006), Hispanics and the Future of America (2006), and Africa on the Move (2006). She has published over 150 scholarly papers in academic journals and edited collections, in addition to numerous research bulletins and articles for a lay audience.

She holds a BA in Spanish from Michigan State University and a MA and Ph.D., both in Sociology, from the University of Texas at Austin. She received honorary doctorates from The Ohio State University (2002), Lehman College (2003) and Bank Street College (2006).

Recent Activities

Marta Tienda serves as a director of TIAA, and board member of the Sloan Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland, and the Corporation of Brown University. She chaired the Panel on Hispanics for the National Academy of Science, and serves on the Visitors Committee of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the RAND Corporation, the Russell Sage Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Kaiser Family foundation and was a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation during the 2006-2007 academic year.

Recent Publications

Fletcher, Jason M. and Marta Tienda. (forthcoming) High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from Texas. Sociology of Education.

Tienda, Marta and Teresa A. Sullivan. 2009. The Promise and Peril of The Texas Uniform Admission Law. In Martin Hall, Marvin Krislov and David L. Featherman (eds.), The Next Twenty Five Years? Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Long, Mark C. and Marta Tienda. 2008. Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions post-Hopwood. Education Evaluation and Policy Review, 30(3):255-280.

Niu, Sunny Xinchun and Marta Tienda. 2008. Choosing Colleges: Identifying and Modeling Choice Sets. Social Science Research, 37(2):416-433.

Alon, Sigal and Marta Tienda. 2007.
Diversity, Opportunity and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education. American Sociological Review, 72(4):487-511.

Tienda, Marta and Sigal Alon. 2007.
Diversity and the Demographic Dividend. Pp. 48-73 in Clive Belfield and Henry Levin (eds.), The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.

Tienda, Marta, Sally Findley, Steve Tollman and Elenor Preston-Whyte. (editors). 2006. Africa on the Move: African Migration and Urbanisation in Comparative Perspective. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell (editors). 2006. Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Tienda, Marta and Faith Mitchell (editors). 2006. Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Tienda, Marta and Sunny Niu. 2006. Capitalizing on Segregation, Pretending Neutrality: College Admissions and the Texas Top 10% Law. American Law and Economics Review, 8:312-346.

Niu, Sunny, Marta Tienda and Kalena Cortes. 2006.
College Selectivity and the Texas Top 10% Law: How Constrained are the Options? Economics of Education Review, 25:259-272.

Alon, Sigal and Marta Tienda. 2005. Assessing the Mismatch Hypothesis: Differentials in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity.
Sociology of Education, 78(4):294-315.

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