
- Director, Advanced Research Collaborative
- Acting Executive Program Officer & Presidential Professor, Sociology
- Presidential Professor, International Migration Studies
- Presidential Professor, Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Ethnography
- Urban Sociology
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Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was the director of the program in International Migration Studies (IMS) from 2018-2019. He chaired the CUNY doctoral program in Sociology from since 2001-2011 and 2014-2017.
Kasinitz graduated Boston University in 1979 and earned his doctorate from New York University in 1987. He specializes in immigration, ethnicity, race relations, urban social life and the nature of contemporary cities. He is the author of Caribbean New York for which he won the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award in 1996. His co-authored book Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age won the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Book Award in 2009 and the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award in 2010.
Kasinitz served as the President of the Eastern Sociological Society in 2007-2008 and received the Society’s “Merritt” Award for career contributions in 2015. Since 2005 has been the book review editor of the ESS journal, Sociological Forum. He is a member of the Historical Advisory Board of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and a former member of the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on International Migration and the Russell Sage Foundation’s committee to study the social effects of 9-11 on New York City.
In addition to publications in scholarly journals Kasinitz is frequently quoted in media venues and his work has appeared in CNN On Line, The New York Daily News, New York Newsday; Dissent; The Nation ; The Wall Street Journal and Lingua Franca. Prior to coming to the Graduate Center, Kasinitz taught at Williams College. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, The University of Amsterdam and the Technical University of Berlin and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Liege.
Selected publications:
- “Super-diversity and Everyday Life: A Trans-Atlantic Dialog”. Jan Willem Duyvendak, Nancy Foner and Philip Kasinitz (editors). Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies (Currently available on line. Print publication date, January 2019. To be reprinted in book form by Taylor and Francis).
- Growing up Muslim in Europe and the United States. Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Philip Kasinitz (editors) Routledge. 2018.
- Global Cities, Local Streets . Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. Routledge, 2015.
- The Urban Ethnography Reader. Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz and Alexandra Murphy (editors). Oxford University Press. 2013.
- Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age (with John H. Mollenkopf, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway), Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2008.
- Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (co-edited with Mary C. Waters and John H. Mollenkopf), Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2004.
- The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience (with Charles Hirschman and Josh Dewind), Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
- Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times, London: MacMillan Ltd. and New York University Press, 1995.
- Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race, Cornell University Press, 1992.
