Marta Tienda

Princeton University

Maurice P. During Professor of Demographic Studies Emerita

Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During '22 Professor of Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Emerita, and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing at Princeton University. Professor Tienda is co-author of The Hispanic Population of the United States (1987), the first national comparison of the major nationality groups, and co-editor of two volumes about Hispanics and the future of America published by the National Academies of Science (2006). She has published over 250 research papers and reports. She is past president of the Population Association of America, past President of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She currently serves on the boards of the Urban Institute, the Robin Hood Foundation (NYC) and the Holdsworth Center for Excellence in Education (Texas). She has served on the board of TIAA, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and several foundations, including Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, W.T. Grant, the Russell Sage Foundation and W.T. Grant Foundation. She received honorary doctorates from the Ohio State University, Michigan State University, Bank Street College and Lehman College. She received a B.A. degree in Spanish (education) from Michigan State University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.