JOHN HULL MOLLENKOPF

John Hull Mollenkopf is the Director of the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also teaches various courses in urban politics and policy. The Center for Urban Research was established to encourage a wide range of scholarly activities across disciplinary lines on urban issues. Incorporating the CUNY Data Service, the Center conducts research on such topics as economic and demographic change, immigration, political participation, crime, housing, and neighborhood development. During the 2000-2001 academic year, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Professor Mollenkopf has MA and PhD degrees from the Department of Government at Harvard University, and a BA from Carleton College. He has extensive expertise in the areas of NYC politics, minority participation, immigration, neighborhoods, crime and voting behavior in particular. Many of his works are widely used in other schools’ courses in urban studies and city culture.

Among his numerous publications are A Phoenix in the Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (first published in 1992), The Contested City (which won Choice’s Outstanding Academic Book Selection), and New York City in the 1980’s: A Social, Economic, and Political Atlas.

Dr. Mollenkopf has served on several working groups dealing with issues of immigrant communities, and housing and urban development in New York City. He has also been a consultant to the New York City Districting and Charter Revision Commissions, and an advisor to the Dinkins’ Mayoral Campaign and to the White House and DNC Senior Staff. Mollenkopf is currently organizing the "Rethinking the Urban Agenda" series, a collaborative effort between the CUNY Graduate Center and The Century Foundation. John Mollenkopf is also qualified as a federal court expert witness on demographics and labor force utilization, electoral behavior and racial bloc voting.

Center for Urban Research
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5^th Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
Tel: 212.817.2046
Fax: 212.817.1575
jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu