Programs in Anthropology are proud to announce that program alum Gabrielle Oliveira (Ph.D. ’15) has been awarded the Teachers College Early Career Award. Teachers College will honor five recipients of the 2025 Alumni Awards at this year’s TC Alumni Day on October 18th. More information about the 2025 Alumni Award Honorees can be found here.

Oliveira earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2015 after the completion of her dissertation project, "Transnational Care Constellations: Mexican Immigrant Mothers and their Children in Mexico and in New York City." She is now the the Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She researches the dynamics of — and solutions to — migration, education, and inequality as experienced by Latin American children and youth. Oliveira is the author of the award-winning book, Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and in New York City, and will publish Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life later this year based on research conducted during her postdoctoral fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation.

We congratulate Gabrielle on her exciting achievements!