ARISTIDE R. ZOLBERG is University-in-Exile Professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City and Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship. He has served twice as Chair of the Department of Political Science and is a member of the Committee on Historical Studies as well as Chair of the New School component of the New York City Consortium on European Studies. He is a member of the Social Science Research Council's Committee on International Migration, of the editorial board of International Migration Review; of the advisory boards of Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Politique (Quebec), and Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford); and serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Refugee Studies, York University (Canada) and the Institute of French Studies, New York University. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch /Africa.
Professor Zolberg has written extensively in the fields of comparative politics and historical sociology and on ethnic conflict and immigration and refugee issues, in both English and French. Within his initial specialization in African studies, he is best known for "Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa"(1966; reprinted 1985), and "The Specter of Anarchy" (Dissent, Summer 1992). He has also written extensively on state and nation-formation in Europe. Recent works include "Working Class Formation: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States" (Princeton, 1986; co-authored and co-edited with Ira Katznelson); "Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World" (Oxford, 1989; co-authored with Astri Suhrke and Sergio Aguayo; translated into Dutch; revised edition in French and English, pending); "Bounded States in a Global Market: The Uses of International Labor Migrations", in Pierre Bourdieu and James S. Coleman (eds.), "Social Theory for a Changing Society" (Boulder: Westview / Russell Sage, 1991); "The Challenge of Diversity: Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration" (co-editor, with Rainer Bauboeck and Agnes Heller; Avebury, 1996);"Global Movements, Global Walls: Responses to Migration, 1885-1925", in Wang Gongwu (ed.), "Global History and Migrations" (Boulder: Westview, 1997); "Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy", in: Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitiz, and Josh DeWind (eds.), "The Handbook of International Migration" (New York: Russell Sage, 1999); "Why Islam is like Spanish" (with Long Litt Woon), "Politics and Society" (Spring 1999); and "Global Migrants, Global Refugees" (co-editor, with Peter Benda; forthcoming, 2001).
Professor Zolberg has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, as well as the Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur, and Pew Foundations, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 1999-2000. Born in Belgium, he came to the United States in 1948, where he attended Columbia University (B.A.), Boston University (M.A.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and was for many years at the University of Chicago, where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He has also been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study and held visiting appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, Princeton University; the Department of Political Science of the University of Paris I, the Institut d'Études Politiques, the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the Collège de France, also in Paris; the Post-Graduate Institute of Sociology, Amsterdam; the Institut fur Hohere Studien, Vienna; and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). He was awarded the Palmes Académiques by the French Republic and honored by the New York Association for New Americans.
He is currently completing a book on the role of immigration policy in American political development, tentatively titled "Immigration by Design: Immigration Policy in the Making of America". Other pending research and publications concern the incorporation of newcomers in liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic and the emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Europe (with Martin Schain and Patrick Hossay).
