Alisse Waterston

Alisse Waterston (born 1951) is an American professor of anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

She then continued her education, earning her master's degree at Columbia University, where she focused on Cultural Anthropology, with Puerto Rican Women in the U.S.: Family, Religion and Political Economy as her thesis.

Waterston served as an adjunct instructor from 1981 to 1985 at Pace University at White Plains and Pleasantville, N.Y., in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Along with her sister Adriana, in 1992 Waterston co-founded Surveys Unlimited, a Horowitz Associates division dedicated to the social, cultural and ethnic research for urban markets.

[5] She is a member of John Jay College Foundation, Inc. board of trustees and a Non-resident Long-term Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.