Leadership
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James Hollifield, Director
James F. HollifieldÌýis a Professor in the Department of Political Science,Ìýand Director of theÌýTower CenterÌýat Southern Methodist University (èßäÊÓƵapp) in Dallas, Texas, as well asÌýa member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and aÌýÌýat the Woodrow Wilson International CenterÌýin Washington, DC.
Hollifield has served as an Advisor toÌývarious governments in North and South America, Europe, East Asia and the Middle East and Africa, as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD, the ILO, the IOM, the EU, and other international organizations.Ìý He currently chairs working groups at the World Bank and the IDBÌýand serves on the International Advisory Board of the National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR for Migration and Mobility) of the Swiss National Science Foundation.Ìý ÌýHe has beenÌýthe recipient of grants from private corporations and foundations as well as government agencies, including the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Social Science Research Council, the Sloan Foundation, the Owens Foundation, the Raytheon Company, and the National Science Foundation.
His major booksÌýincludeÌýImmigrants, Markets and StatesÌý(Harvard),ÌýL’Immigration et l’Etat Nation: à la recherche d’un modèle nationalÌý(L’Harmattan),ÌýPathways to Democracy: The Political Economy of Democratic TransitionsÌý(with Calvin Jillson, Routledge),ÌýMigration, Trade and DevelopmentÌý(with Pia Orrenius and Thomas Osang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas),Herausforderung Migration—Perspektiven der vergleichenden PolitikwissenschaftÌý(with Uwe Hunger, Lit Verlag),ÌýMigration TheoryÌý(with Caroline Brettell, Routledge, now it its 3rdÌýedition), andÌýControlling ImmigrationÌý( with Philip Martin and Pia Orrenius, Stanford, also in its 3rdedition). His current book projects areÌýThe Migration StateÌý(Harvard)—a study of how states manage international migration for strategic gains—andÌýInternational Political Economy: History, Theory and PolicyÌý(with Thomas Osang, Cambridge). He alsoÌýhas published numerous scientific articles and reports on the political economy of international migration and development.
HollifieldÌýwas educated at Wake Forest College (BA with honors in politics and economics), and he studied at Sciences Po Grenoble and Paris (DEA in applied economics) before completing his PhD in political science at Duke University. In addition to èßäÊÓƵapp he has taught at Brandeis and Auburn, served as a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and MIT’s Center for International Studies, and was appointed Director of Research at the CNRS and Sciences Po in Paris.Ìý He is a Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego, at theÌýInstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) at the University of Bonn, and the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.Ìý During the last academic year (2015-16) he was named as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and has continued his work there as a Global Fellow. ÌýIn 2016 Hollifield received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.Ìý