Understanding Global Migration: Challenges and Opportunities for the U.S.
Dr. James F. Hollifield
Professor of Political Science and Director, Tower Center, Southern Methodist University
James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Tower Center at SMU. He is Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in DC and Fellow at the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit at the University of Bonn.
Dr. Hollifield is a scholar of international and comparative politics and has written widely on issues of political and economic development with a focus on migration. Before joining the faculty at SMU, Hollifield taught at Brandeis and Auburn, was a Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and Associate Director of Research at the French CNRS.
In addition to many scientific articles and reports, his recent works include Controlling Immigration (4th edition), Understanding Global Migration (both published by Stanford University Press) and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Hollifield has served as an advisor for many governments and international organizations on matters of migration and human and economic development. In 2016 he received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association, and in 2021-22 he was named as Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris.