Lee Cuba

Associate Dean of the College
Professor of Sociology
Wellesley College

Wellesley College Professor of Sociology, Lee Cuba, was appointed Associate Dean of the College in August, 1995. In that position, Professor Cuba focuses on curriculum development, academic innovation, and interdisciplinary studies. He serves as a member of Wellesley's Senior Staff.

An authority on the connection between aging and migration patterns, Professor Cuba has done extensive research on communities in Alaska and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He is also an expert on questionnaire design and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

A member of the Wellesley College faculty since 1981, Professor Cuba served as Chair of the Department of Sociology from 1992-1995, and as Associate Director of the Writing Program from 1993-1995.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lee Cuba received a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Southern Methodist University in 1976 and an M.A., M-Phil. and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1977,1978 and 1981, respectively. Prior to joining the Wellesley College faculty, he was an instructor in Sociology at Yale in 1981 and at the University of Alaska in 1979.

Professor Cuba has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging; the NIH (National Institute of Mental Healtlh); and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is the author of numerous articles on the nature of regional retirement migration, decision making models of elderly migration, the effects of retirement migration on family life, and the sources and location of migrant place identities. He is also the author of two books: Identity and Community on the Alaskan Frontier (Temple University Press, 1987) and A Short Guide to Writing About Social Science, Third Edition (Longman, 1997).

Lee Cuba is a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts.