Roberto Gonzales

Roberto Gonzales is the Richard Perry University Professor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor, with appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of Education. Professor Gonzales is also the founding director of the Penn Migration Initiative, a university-wide effort aimed at advancing and promoting interdisciplinary scholarship and intellectual exchange around issues of immigration policy and immigrant communities. His research, including his landmark book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America, focuses on factors that shape and reduce economic, legal, and social inequalities among vulnerable and hard-to-reach youth populations as they transition to adulthood.