Douglas Massey#
| Membership Number: | 4732 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://wws.princeton.edu/faculty-research/faculty/dmassey |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005, 09 - present Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- 2003, 07 - 2005, 08 Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Princeton University
- 1994, 07 - 2003, 06 Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor, Sociology, Demography & International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- 1990, 07 - 1994, 06 Professor, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
- 1987, 07 - 1994, 06 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
- 1985, 07 - 1987, 07 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania
- 1980, 09 - 1985, 07 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania
- 1979, 09 - 1980, 09 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate Group in Demography, University of California at Berkeley
- 1979, 01 - 1979, 06 Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
- 1978, 09 - 1979, 09 Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Fields of Scholarship
- Biosociology
- Social research methods
- Latin
- Segregation
- American studies
- Immigration
- Demography
- Urban sociology
- Race/ethnic relations
- Stratification
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Bronislaw Malinowsky Award, Society for Applied Anthropology, for 30 years of work on the Mexican Migration Project
- 2017 Invited Lifetime Fellow, Global Labor Organization (GLO), Bonn, Germany
- 2016 John Hope Franklin Award, Law and Society Association, for exceptional scholarship in the field of Race, Racism and the Law
- 2006 - 2015 President, American Academy of Political and Social Science
- 2014 Robert and Helen Lynd Career Award, Community and Urban Studies Section, American Sociological Association
- 2014 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book, Community and Urban Studies Section, American Sociological Association
- 2013 Irene B. Taeuber Award, Population Association of America for an accumulated record of exceptional & innovative research
- 2012 Doctor of Social Science Honoris Causa, Ohio State University, Honorary Degree
- 2012 Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology, American Sociological Association
- 2011 Julian Simon Lecture, 8th Annual Migration Meeting, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - DC
- 2011 - present External Fellow, Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, UK
- 2009 Distinguished Career Award, International Migration Section, American Sociological Association
- 2006 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2004 Elected Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2004 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association, for Beyond Smoke and Mirrors
- 2000 - 2001 President, American Sociological Association
- 1998 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1989 Elected Member, Sociological Research Association
- 1996 President, Population Association of America, 1996
