Douglas S. Massey : Biographical Sketch
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Douglas S. Massey is the Dorothy
Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania and Chair of its Sociology Department. He is
co-author of the book, American Apartheid: Segregation
and the Making of the Underclass (Harvard University Press,
1993), which culminates 15 years of research on the topic of
residential segregation. Since the book's appearance, Dr.
Massey has lectured widely before civic leaders, business groups,
policy forums, foundation executives, and academic
exchanges. He has written more than 30 scholarly articles
on the subject of racial segregation, and his research has been
the subject of testimony before the U.S. Congress on three
occasions. American Apartheid won the Distinguished
Publication Award of the American Sociological Association, the
Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Section on the Sociology of
Population, and the Critics' Choice Award of the American
Educational Studies Association.
Douglas Massey has also published
extensively on U.S.-Mexico migration, including the books Return
to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration
from Western Mexico (University of California Press, 1987)
and Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to
the United States (University of Arizona Press, 1995).
The latter book, co-authored with Jorge Durand, won a 1996
Southwest Book Award. He has testified at Congressional
hearings on immigration numerous times and has served as an
immigration adviser to the National Academy of Sciences, the
Social Science Research Council, the U.S. Commission on
Immigration and Cooperative Economic Development, and the Russell
Sage Foundation. In collaboration with an international
team of colleagues, he recently completed a new book, Worlds
in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century's End
published in late 1998 by Oxford University Press.
Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
in July of 1994, Dr. Massey served on the faculty of the
University of Chicago where he directed its Latin American
Studies Center and Population Research Center. He is
also formerly a director of the University of
Pennsylvania's Population Studies Center and chair of
its Graduate Group in Demography. During 1979 and 1980 he
undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California
at Berkeley and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D.
in 1978. Douglas Massey has been elected to membership in
the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.