Caroline Brettell is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ruth Collins Altshuler Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University. She has spent her career studying the immigrant populations in Europe, Canada, and more recently the United States. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters she is the author, co-author/editor or co-editor of 14 books. Her most recent books are Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants (co-authored with Deborah Reed-Danahay, Stanford), Citizenship, Immigration and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States (co-edited with Deborah Reed-Danahay; Rutgers), Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (6th edition; co-edited with Carolyn Sargent); Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburbia (co-edited with Audrey Singer and Susan Hardwick); Crossing Borders/Constructing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration; and Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity.