{{short description|American sociologist|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Nancy Foner''' is an American sociologist, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, and a published author.
Foner is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/sociology/faculty/nancy-foner |title=Nancy Foner |publisher=cuny.edu |access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref> She has also held the professorships of Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York at Purchase and also Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting professor of Equality and Justice at Baruch College, City University of New York.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/sociology/faculty/nancy-foner/repository/files/Foner.%20cv.%20Oct2016.pdf |title=Nancy Foner |publisher=cuny.edu |access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83238352/ |title=Foner, Nancy |publisher=worldcat.org |access-date=December 11, 2016}}</ref>
Foner has served as president of the Eastern Sociological Society (2014–15), chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/sociology/faculty/nancy-foner |title=Foner, Nancy |publisher=hunter.cuny.edu |access-date=February 11, 2017}}</ref>
She is the daughter of Moe and Anne Foner, a sociology professor. She is the niece of Henry Foner and his wife Lorraine Lieberman.<ref name=nytobit>, {{cite news | first = Sam | last = Robers | title = Henry J. Foner, Labor Leader Accused of Communist Ties, Dies at 97 | work = New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/nyregion/obituary-henry-j-foner-liberal-party-union-leader.html | date = 19 January 2017 | access-date = 22 January 2017}}</ref> Her uncles are Moe's older twin brothers Jack D. and Philip S. Foner, and historian Eric Foner is her cousin.
==Publications== *From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000) *In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005) *Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson, 2004) *New Immigrants in New York (Columbia University Press, revised edition, 2001) *Islands in the city: West Indian Migration to New York (University of California Press, 2001) *and Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (edited with Ruben Rumbaut and Steven J. Gold, 2000). *Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (New York University Press, 2009) <ref>[http://www.mmg.mpg.de/staff-members-scholarship-holders-and-guests/senior-research-partners/prof-nancy-foner/ Books authored by Nancy Foner]</ref>
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==External sources== *[http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/sociology/faculty/nancy-foner Hunter College]: Nancy Foner *[https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Sociology/Faculty-Bios/Nancy-Foner CUNY]: Nancy Foner *[http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?faculty=nancy-foner Roosevelt Institute]: Nancy Foner *[http://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/staff/nancy-foner Migration Policy Institute]: Nancy Foner
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