Raymond Buriel is Harry S. and Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychology and Chicano Studies at Pomona College. He is a native of Riverside, California, and received his Ph. D. from the University of California at Riverside. He did post doctoral work at the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center at UCLA on a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and is a Scholar of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at Claremont, California. He has served as a consultant to Project Follow Through, The National Center for Bilingual Research, The California State Department of Education, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services. He was the founding Chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano Studies at the Claremont Colleges and was formerly the Associate Dean of the College at Pomona College. His research has focused on the acculturation and adjustment of Mexican immigrant families with a special emphasis on the characteristics of immigrants that are conducive to success in the United States. His work in this area has examined the development of biculturalism as an adaptive strategy and the deleterious effects of deculturation across successive generations. His research has appeared in several book chapters and scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences and The Journal of Genetic Psychology. He is one of the Founding Committee Members of The Latino/a Caucus of The Society for Research in Child Development. His current research focuses on children who serve as interpreters for their immigrant parents. He refers to these children as "language brokers". His work in this area focuses on the developmental challenges these children face and the outcomes they have on their development.
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