Dr. Nazli Kibria is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 1986. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of family, race and ethnicity, gender and globalization with a focus on South Asia as well as the Asian American experience. She is currently engaged in a study of globalization and family life, one that focuses empirically on the emerging dynamics of family, both within selected communities in Bangladesh and among Bangladeshi-origin families around the world, including the U.S., Britain, and France. By conceptually locating the family at the center of scholarly debates on globalization, she hopes to generate insights into cultural responses and adaptations to globalization processes. In her current work, she is focusing on two aspects of family life and their relationship to globalization: marriage decisions and adolescence.