PHILIP KASINITZ

Philip Kasinitz holds a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology and Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He studies contemporary urban problems and processes, international migration, race and ethnicity, poverty and social change. He is the author of Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (the winner of the 1996 Thomas and Znaniecki Award), the editor of Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times, and co-editor of The Handbook on International Migration: The American Experience. He is currently working on a long-term ethnographic and historical project on the Red Hook section of Brooklyn and (with Mary Waters and John Mollenkopf) — a major multi-method study of the young adult children of immigrants in New York City. In addition to numerous academic venues, his work has appeared in Dissent, Lingua Franca, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Telos, Commonquest and New York Newsday. Professor Kasinitz received his B.A. from Boston University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1987. He served as chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on International Migration during 1998-99. Prior to coming to C.U.N.Y. in 1993 he taught at Williams College.

Hunter College
Department of Sociology
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New York, NY 10021
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pkasinit@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu