Scholars Affiliated with the Coalition for the National Museum of the American People
Anny Bakalian, Associate Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, Graduate Center, City University of New York (Ph.D. -- Columbia University).
Co-Author of: Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond; Armenian-Americans - From Being to Feeling Armenian.
Carl L. Bankston, Professor of Sociology, Tulane University (Ph.D. -- Louisiana State University).
Author of: Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States; Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity; Public Education – America's Civil Religion: A Social History.
Ron Bayor, Professor of History and Chair of the School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Tech., and former president, Immigration and Ethnic History Society (Ph.D. -- University of Pennsylvania).
Author of: Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941; Fiorello LaGuardia: Ethnicity and Reform; and Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta. Founding editor of: Journal of American Ethnic History. Editor of: The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America; Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History.
Frank Bean, Chancellor's Professor School of Social Sciences and Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy at University of California at Irvine. (Ph.D. -- Duke University).
Co-Author of: The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America America's Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity; The Hispanic Population of the United States.
John Bodnar, Chancellor's Professor, Department of History, Indiana University at Bloomington (Ph.D. -- University of Connecticut).
Author of: The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Co-Author of: Lives of their Own: Poles, Blacks and Italians in Pittsburgh, 1900-1950.
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Associate Professor of Sociology; Founding Deputy Director, Master of Arts Program in Middle Eastern Studies; Founding Co-Director, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, City College and Graduate Center, City University of New York (Ph.D. -- University of California, Los Angeles).
Author of: Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond; Ethnic Los Angeles.
Caroline Brettell, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University (Ph.D. -- Brown University).
Author of: Anthropology and Migration. Co-Editor: International Migration: The Female Experience; Men who Migrate.
John J. Bukowczyk, Professor of History, Wayne State University and Editor: Journal of American Ethnic History (Ph.D. -- Harvard University).
Author of: And My Children Did Not Know Me: A History of the Polish-Americans; Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990. Editor of: Polish Americans and Their History: Community, Culture, and Politics.
Nancy Carnevale, Associate Professor of History, Montclair State University (Ph.D. -- Rutgers University).
Author of: A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945.
Stephen Castles, Research Chair in Sociology, University of Sydney (D. Phil. -- University of Sussex).
Author of: The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World; Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South; Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging.
Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.
Author of: Frontiers of Identity: The British and the Others; Global Diasporas: An Introduction; Migration and Its Enemies. Editor of: Routledge Series on Global Diasporas; Cambridge Survey of World Migration.
Vishakha N. Desai, President and CEO, Asia Society (Ph.D. -- University of Michigan).
Author of: Faces of Asia: Portraits from the Permanent Collection. Editor of: Asian Art History in the Twenty First Century.
Thomas Martin Devine, Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Paleography and Director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies, The University of Edinburgh.
Author of: Scottish Emigration & Scottish Society; Scotland's Empire 1600 - 1815; The Scottish Nation 1700 - 2007.
Tom Dillehay, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University (Ph.D. -- University of Texas-Austin).
Author of: The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory; Monuments, Empires, and Resistance: The Araucanian Polity and Ritual Narratives.
Hasia Diner, Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Center for American Jewish History, New York University (Ph.D. -- University of Illinois-Chicago).
Author of: The Jews of the United States, 1645 to 2000; The Lower East Side Memoirs; The Jewish Place in America; A Time for Gathering 1820-1880: The Second Migration, Volume Two in, The Jewish People in America. Co-Author of: Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present.
Thomas Dublin, State University of New York Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Binghamton University (Ph.D. -- Columbia University).
Editor of: Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986; Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots.
Ellen Eisenberg, Dwight & Margaret Lear Professor of American History, Willamette University (Ph.D. -- University of Pennsylvania).
Author of: The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII. Co-Author of: Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America's Edge.
Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D. -- University of Chicago).
Author of: From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration; In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. Co-editor of: Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States; Editor of: Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America; Islands in the City: West Indian Migrations to New York; New Immigrants in New York.
Donna Gabaccia, Professor of History and Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota (Ph.D. -- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).
Author of: From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990; A Longer Atlantic in a Wider World. Co-Author of: Immigrant Lives in the US: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives; Gender and Migration. Co-Editor of: American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History. Editor of: Seeking Common Ground: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women in the United States.
Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor, Department of History, Cornell University (Ph.D. -- University of Texas, Austin).
Author of: Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994; Seeking Refuge: Central American Immigration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Gary Gerstle, Professor of History and of Political Science, Vanderbilt University (Ph.D. -- Harvard University).
Author of: Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960; American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Co-Editor of: Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy.
Ted Goebel, Associate Director, Center for the Study of the First Americans, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University.
Author of numerous articles, published in esteemed peer-review journals such as Science and The Journal of Archeological Science.
Marilyn Halter, Professor of History and Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University (Ph.D. -- Boston University).
Author of: Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965; Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity; Editor of: New Migrants in the Marketplace: Boston's Ethnic Entrepreneurs.
Dirk Hoerder, Professor of History, Arizona State University (Ph.D. -- Free University of Berlin).
Author of: Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium; Creating Societies, Immigrant Lives in Canada; Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1785-1780. Co-Author of: Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930 (Ellis Island).
Franca Iacovetta, Professor of History, University of Toronto (Ph.D. -- York University).
Co-Editor of: Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History; Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italy’s Workers of the World; Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Post-War Toronto.
Matthew Jacobson, Professor of American Studies and History, Chair, American Studies, Yale University (Ph.D. -- Brown University).
Author of: Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America; Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917; Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States.
Michael Jones-Correa, Professor of Government, Cornell University (Ph.D. -- Princeton University).
Author of: Between Two Nations: The Predicament of Latinos in New York City. Co-Author of: Latino Lives in America: Making It Home. Editor of: Governing American Cities: Interethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict.
Jonathan Karp, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, SUNY (Ph.D. -- Columbia University).
Author of: The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Ideology and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848. Co-editor of: The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times: Essays on Jews and Aesthetic Culture; and Philosemitism in History.
Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College (Ph.D. -- Columbia University).
Author of: Making Sense of the Molly Maguires; The American Irish: A History; Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment. Contributing Editor of: Ireland and the British Empire; New Directions in Irish-American History.
Vitaut Kipel, Director, Belarusan Institute of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D. -- Catholic University of Louvain- Belgium).
Author of: Belarusans in the United States; Byelorussian Americans and their Communities in Cleveland.
Alan M. Kraut, University Professor of History, American University, Chair of the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, and former President, Immigration and Ethnic History Society (Ph.D. -- Cornell University).
Author of: The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921; Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace". Co-Editor of: American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader.
Erika Lee, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota (Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley).
Author of: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.
Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University where she co-directs The Transnational Studies Initiative. (Ph.D. -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Author of: God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape; The Transnational Studies Reader; The Changing Face of Home; The Transnational Villagers.
Edward Linenthal, Professor of History, Indiana University (Ph.D. -- University of California-Santa Barbara).
Author of: Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields; Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. Co-Editor of: American Sacred Space.
Leo Lucassen, Professor of Social History, University of Leiden (Ph.D. -- University of Leiden).
Author of: The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migration in Western Europe Since 1850; Migration, Migration History, History: Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. Editor of: Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004).
Adam McKeown, Associate Professor at the History Department of Columbia University. (Ph.D. -- University of Chicago).
Author of: Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929; Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago and Hawaii, 1900-1936.
Cecilia Menjivar, Cowden Distinguished Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Department of Sociology, Arizona State University (Ph.D. -- University of California, Davis).
Author of: Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. Co-Editor of: When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S. and Technologies of Terror; Latinos/as in the United States: Changing the Face of America.
Kerby Miller, Curator's Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri (Ph.D. -- University of California, Berkeley).
Author of: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America; Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815; Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration.
Ewa Morawska, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex (Ph.D. -- Boston University).
Author of: Sociology of Immigration; Immigrant-Black Dissensions in American Cities: An Argument for Multiple Explanations. Co-Editor of: International Migration Research: Construction, Omissions, and Promises of Interdisiplinarity.
Jose C. Moya, Professor of History and Director of Forum on Migration, Barnard College, Columbia University (Ph.D. -- Rutgers University).
Author of: Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930. Editor of: Latin American Historiography.
Mae Ngai, Professor of Asian American Studies and of History, Columbia University (Ph.D. -- Columbia University).
Author of: Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
Gary Y. Okihiro, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (Ph.D. -- University of California-Los Angeles).
Author of: Impounded: Dorothea Lang and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment; The Columbia Guide to Asian American History; Common Ground: Reimagining American History.
George Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and of History, University of Southern California (Ph.D. -- Stanford University).
Author of: Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945; What’s Good for Boyle Heights is Good for the Jews: Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside during the 1950's.
Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institution. (Ph.D. -- University of Texas at Austin)
Co-Editor of: Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America
Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Chair as Professor of English and Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University. (Ph.D. -- Freie Universitat Berlin).
Author of: Ethnic Modernism; Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture; Neither Black Nor White and Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature; Editor of: The Promised Land; Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader; Multilingual America; Interracialism.
Mark Stolarik, Professor and Chair in Slovak History & Culture, University of Ottawa and former President and CEO of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, 1979-1991 (Ph.D. -- University of Minnesota).
Author of: Forgotten Doors: The Other Ports of Entry into the United States; The Slovak Americans; Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience.
Don Heinrich Tolzmann, President, German-American Citizens League of Greater Cincinnati, Curator, German Heritage Museum of Cincinnati; former president, Society for German American Studies (Ph.D. -- University of Cincinnati).
Author of: German-Americana: Selected Essays.
Gloria Totoricaguena, Director, Basque Global Initiatives, Pentsamendua Foundation: A Laboratory for Thought and Inquiry, Bilbao, Spain (Ph.D. -- London School of Economics).
Author of: Basque Diaspora: Migration and Transnational Identity; The Basques of New York: A Cosmopolitan Experience; Identity, Culture, and Politics: Comparing the Basque Diaspora. Editor of: Opportunity Structures in Diaspora Relations: Comparisons in Contemporary Multilevel Politics of Diaspora and Transnational Identity.
Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Interim Associate Vice-Provost for International Studies at UCLA (Ph.D. -- Harvard University).
Author of: How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor; Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America; Still the Promised City? New Immigrants and African-Americans in Post-Industrial New York; Ethnic Los Angeles.
Wang Gungwu, University Professor and Chairman, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (Ph.D. -- University of London).
Author of: The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy; China and the Chinese Overseas; Global History and Migrations.
Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University (Ph.D. -- University of California-Berkeley).
Author of: Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities; Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies in the New Second Generation. Co-Editor of: Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation.
Cornel West, Professor of Religion and of African American Studies, Princeton University (Ph.D. -- Princeton University).
Author of: Race Matters; Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. Co-Author of: The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country.
Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History and Chair of the Faculty Editorial Board at University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. -- Harvard University).
Author of: Peaceable Kingdoms: New England Towns in the Eighteenth Century; Friends and Neighbors: Group Life in America's Society. Co-Editor of: Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain; Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754-1829.
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