Paolo Boccagni (Sociology, Trento)

Assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. PhD, Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento.

Areas of expertise: international migration; globalization and transnational studies; social policy and care; third sector and civic participation; migration and transnational social protection; social theory; social welfare.

 

Mathias Czaika (Migration Studies, Oxford)

Director of the International Migration Institute (IMI), associate professor of migration and development, Oxford University. Ph.D., political economy, University of Freiburg.

Areas of expertise: political economy of migration, migration policies, effects and effectiveness of migration policies.

 

 Irma Elo (Demography, Penn)

Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center. Ph.D. Public Affairs and Demography, Princeton University.

Areas of expertise: Race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in health and mortality, neighborhood effects on physical and mental health, in the US and in Finland.

 

Susan Fiske (Social Psychology, Princeton)

Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University. Ph.D., Social Psychology, Harvard University (honorary doctorates: Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Universitat Basel, Switzerland).

Areas of expertise: social cognition, stereotype content model, impression, intergroup contacts, identity.

 

Yossi Harpaz (Sociology, Tel-Aviv University)

Assistant professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. , Sociology, Princeton University.

Areas of expertise:  citizenship, global inequality, international migration, ethnic and national identity, comparative-historical sociology

 

Dan Hopkins (Political Science, Penn)

Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Arts and Science, University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. in Government, Harvard University.

Areas of expertise: American politics, racial and ethnic politics, political behavior, and research methods.

 

LaShawn Jefferson (Perry World House, Penn)

Perry World House’s Deputy Director. Former Program Officer on Women’s Human Rights, Ford Foundation, and former Executive Director, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch.

Areas of expertise: legal and policy advocacy, strategic planning and communications, and research and writing on women’s international human rights through civil-society organizations and philanthropy.

 

Michael Jones-Correa (Political Science, UPenn)

Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Ph.D., Political Science, Princeton.

Areas of expertise: political participation and civic engagement; Immigrant incorporation; Racial and ethnic politics and identity; Inter-ethnic contact, negotiation and coalition-building; comparative urban politics.

 

Joe Kable (Psychology, Penn)

Baird Term Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn. Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of interest: neurophysiological mechanisms underlying decision-making, experimental economics, psychology of judgment and decision-making, social and cognitive neuroscience.

 

Andy Karpinski (Psychology, Temple)

Associate Professor of  Social Psychology, Temple University. Ph.D. , Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  

Areas of expertise: Implicit cognition, Unconscious processes and individual behavior and/or group differences, Indirect measures of social cognition. CfThe Temple CIA Lab (Cognition and Implicit Attitudes Lab)

 

Douglas Massey (Sociology, Princeton)

Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Ph.D., Sociology, Princeton.

Areas of expertise: Demography, Urban Sociology and Residential Segregation, Race and Ethnicity, International Migration, Latin American Society (particularly Mexico).

 

Jean-Baptiste Meyer (Sociology, Institute for Research and Development)

Senior researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, professor. Ph.D.  Areas of expertise: diaspora, networks, circulation of knowledge, global  mobility. Cf.  http://observatoriomigraciones.org/

 

Michael Platt (Psychology, Penn)

James S. Riepe University Professor. Ph.D., Biological Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of expertise: Animal Learning and Behavior, Control of Action, Decision Processes, Individual Differences and Behavior Genetics, Brain and Society, Circuits and Behavior, Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

 

Neil Ruiz (Pew Research Center)

Associate Director of Reserach on Global Migration and Demography. Ph. D. Political Science, MIT.  

Areas of expertise: Economy, Education, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity.

 

Nicholas Sambanis (Political Science, Penn)

Distinguished Presidential Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.  Ph.D., International Affairs, Princeton.  

 Areas of expertise: civil wars, ethnic conflict, and international relations, peacekeeping and peacebuilding, identity formation.

 

Marta Tienda (Sociology, Princeton)

Maurice P. During ’22 Professor in Demographic Studies. Ph. D., Sociology , UT Austin. 

 Areas of expertise:  Racial and ethnic inequality, international migration, variations in family structure and reproductive behavior, access to higher education, life-cycle timing of migration,  implications of adolescent romantic relationships for emotional and physical well-being.

 

Deena Weisberg (Psychology, Penn)

Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Neuroscience & Society, distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, principal investigator of the Cognition & Development Lab.  Ph.D., Psychology, Yale.

Areas of expertise: development of imaginative cognition, learning, scientific thinking and reasoning.

 

Simeng Wang (Sociology, CNRS)

Research fellow at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and faculty member at the CERMES3 (Research Centre, Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society). Ph.D., Sociology, Ecole Normale Superieure.

Areas of expertise:  mental health care among migrants, Chinese migration in France, transnational circulations of medical knowledge and practices, ethnicity and intercultural issues.

 

Conveners

Devesh Kapur (Political Science, UPenn)

Professor of Political Science at Penn, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India. Ph.D., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton.

Areas of expertise: human capital, national and international public institutions, international migration, international institutions, and political and economic change in developing countries, especially India.

 

Thomas Lacroix (Political Science, CNRS)

CNRS Senior Researcher, Associate researcher at the International Migration Institute (Oxford University), associate editor of Migration Studies, editorial board member of E-migrinter and co-director of the Master “International Migrations and Societies”. Ph.D., Geography and Political Science, University of Poitiers (2003).

Areas of expertise: migration and development, diasporic memory, ethnic business, associational and family transnationalism.

 

Ilka Vari-Lavoisier (Sociology, UPenn)

Postdoctoral researcher (CASI), University of Pennsylvania; associate researcher (DIAL), Institute of Research for Development (IRD). Ph.D., Sociology, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.

Areas of expertise: international migration, academic mobility, South-South migration, urbanization, social cognition.

 

Network Members

Kay Deaux (Social psychology, City University of New York)

Distinguished Professor Emerita, CUNY. Ph.D., Social Psychology, Austin.

Areas of expertise: stereotypes, discrimination, and social identity, gender and immigration.

 

 Hamidou Dia (Sociology, Institute for Research and Development)

Sociologist at the IRD (Institute for research and development) and CEPED (Centre for Population and Development), University of Paris Descartes, Chair of the ARES (Association for research on education and knowledge). Ph.D., Sociology, University Paris Descartes.

Areas of expertise: International mobility, reforms in education and training systems in developing countries, Elites and their relation to the flow of knowledge, standards and concepts.