Biography
Philip Kasinitz holds a joint Professorship in Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently the Executive Officer (Chair) of the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Sociology and also serves as the Associate Director of the CUNY Center for Urban Research so he is not on the Hunter campus much.
Professor Kasinitz received his B.A. from Boston University on 1979 and his Ph.D. from New York University in 1987. Prior to coming to C.U.N.Y. he taught at Williams College. He writes primarily about urban life, race and ethnicity and international migration. His book Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (Cornell University Press, 1992) won the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of ASA. He is also the editor of Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Time (New York University Press, 1995), and co-editor (with Josh DeWind and Charles Hirschman) of the Handbook on International Migration (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999), which also won the Thomas and Znaniecki award. Professor Kasinitz is currently directing a project (with John H. Mollenkopf of the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, Mary C. Waters of Harvard University and Jennifer Holdaway of SSRC) on 'second generation immigrants' now coming of age in New York City. The first of several books to be produced by the project, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the 'New' Second Generation, edited by Kasinitz, Mollenkopf and Waters, was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2004.
Professor Kasinitz is a former Chair of the ASA's International Migration section, and a former council member of the ASA section on Community and Urban Sociology. He is a member of the Social Science Research Council's Committee on International Migration, the Historical Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation's Committee to study the Social Impacts of the events of "9-11" on New York City. This group has recently assembled a volume (to be published in 2005), to which Kasinitz (with students Binh Pok and Gregg Smithsimon) has contributed a chapter on how the attack and its aftermath have effected the residential neighborhoods closest to "Ground Zero." Professor Kasinitz has also served as a consultant to The Museum of American Jewish History, The Brooklyn Historical Society and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Professor Kasinitz serves on the editorial boards of Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Wadabegi: A Journal of the Caribbean and is Diaspora. Until its untimely demise, he was also on the editorial board of Commonquest, a magazine dedicated to inter-ethnic relations. In addition to appearing in numerous academic journals, Professor Kasinitz writes for a variety of public venues. His work has appeared in Dissent, The Nation, The City Journal, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Culturefront and Lingua Franca.
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