Douglas S. Massey is Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University, where he held a joint appointment in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international migration, race and housing, residential segregation, urban poverty, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including the award-winning American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (with Nancy Denton, 1993) and Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Age of Economic Integration (with Jorge Durand, 2002). He is past president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received his B.A. in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish from Western Washington University in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 1978.
Awards & Distinctions
- Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Member, American Philosophical Society; Past President, American Sociological Association; Past President, Population Association of America; Past President, American Academy of Political and Social Science; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley