Migration Experts
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Born in Chile to parents of different nationalities, and as the daughter of a career diplomat, I developed early on a personal and intellectual interest in the topic of international migration. After receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, I moved to the University of Houston, where I co-directed the Center for Immigration Research from 1995-2005. In 2005, I joined...
Professor of Sociology, Goethe University
As a Sociology professor and chair of Women and Gender Studies at Goethe University, Helma Lutz has been the initiator and advisor of numerous gender and diversity activities at her school. She is associate executive director of the Cornelia Goethe Center of Women’s and Gender Studies at Goethe University. She is also the director of ‘IPP Transnational’, a program for the interna...
Executive Director, CETPA (professional mental health counseling services for the Latino community);
Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Education
M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University; B.A. in Philosophy, Barnard College
Honors
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2009; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 2005-6; Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-96; Social Politics recognized by Library Journal as one of "10 Best New Journals of 1994"; Fulbright Scholar Abroad, Sweden, 1994; National...
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-Riverside
Karthick Ramakrishnan is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on civic participation, immigration policy, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States. He is project director of the National Asian American Survey, which conducted the first national opinion survey of Asian Americans in 2008, and will c...
Blair A. Ruble is currently Director of the Wilson Center’s Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience and Senior Advisor to the Center’s Kennan Institute. Previously, he served as the long-time Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) as well as of the Wilson Center’s Comparative Urban Studies Program (1992-2012). A native of New...
Economics Professor, School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University, Canada
Fazley Siddiq is a Professor of Economics at the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University, a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is the 2012-13 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He has served as a member of the professoriate at Dalhousie since 1986 and was...