PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – PSTC alum Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo (Sociology, ’04 PhD) has been named the recipient of this year’s Horace Mann Medal from the Brown University Graduate School. Each year, the award is given to an alum “who has made significant contributions in his or her field, inside or outside of academia.”

Giorguli is president of El Colegio de México (Colmex). The school, located in Mexico City, is regarded as the premier university in Mexico for researching and teaching in the social sciences and humanities. Giorguli joined the Colmex faculty following her graduation from Brown in 2004 and has served as president since 2015.

As a demographer and sociologist, Giorguli’s research has focused on migration from Mexico to the U.S. She collaborates with PSTC Associate and Professor of Sociology David Lindstrom on the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), which is the longest ongoing study of Mexico-U.S. migration based on surveys conducted in Mexico and migrant destination communities in the U.S. The project is funded by the National Institutes of Health and has transformed the way migration is studied. Lindstrom and Giorguli will become co-directors of the MMP in 2019, at which time the project will move to the PSTC. In 2017, Lindstrom and Giorguli co-organized the Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI) on Migration in the Americas held at Colmex.

In addition to her work on international migration from Mexico to the United States and its consequences regarding education and family formation for the Mexican population on both sides of the border, Giorguli studies transitions to adulthood in Latin America and the consequences of demographic change, particularly on education issues.

Giorguli will present “The Other Side of the Migration Story: The Implications of Mexico-U.S. Migration for Mexico,” her Commencement Forum talk, on Saturday, May 26, at 11 a.m. in the Metcalf Research Laboratory, Friedman Auditorium, Room 101, 190 Thayer Street. The event is open to the public.

She will be presented with the Horace Mann Medal during the Graduate School Doctoral Ceremony on May 27.

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