Leadership
James Hollifield, Director
James F. Hollifieldis a Professor in the Department of Political Science,and Director of theTower Centerat 91ƬSϼ (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, as well asa member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and aat the Woodrow Wilson International Centerin Washington, DC.
Hollifield has served as an Advisor tovarious governments in North and South America, Europe, East Asia and the Middle East and Africa, as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD, the ILO, the IOM, the EU, and other international organizations. He currently chairs working groups at the World Bank and the IDBand serves on the International Advisory Board of the National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR for Migration and Mobility) of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He has beenthe recipient of grants from private corporations and foundations as well as government agencies, including the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Social Science Research Council, the Sloan Foundation, the Owens Foundation, the Raytheon Company, and the National Science Foundation.
His major booksincludeImmigrants, Markets and States(Harvard),L’Immigration et l’Etat Nation: à la recherche d’un modèle national(L’Harmattan),Pathways to Democracy: The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions(with Calvin Jillson, Routledge),Migration, Trade and Development(with Pia Orrenius and Thomas Osang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas),Herausforderung Migration—Perspektiven der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft(with Uwe Hunger, Lit Verlag),Migration Theory(with Caroline Brettell, Routledge, now it its 3rdedition), andControlling Immigration( with Philip Martin and Pia Orrenius, Stanford, also in its 3rdedition). His current book projects areThe Migration State(Harvard)—a study of how states manage international migration for strategic gains—andInternational Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy(with Thomas Osang, Cambridge). He alsohas published numerous scientific articles and reports on the political economy of international migration and development.
Hollifieldwas educated at Wake Forest College (BA with honors in politics and economics), and he studied at Sciences Po Grenoble and Paris (DEA in applied economics) before completing his PhD in political science at Duke University. In addition to SMU he has taught at Brandeis and Auburn, served as a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and MIT’s Center for International Studies, and was appointed Director of Research at the CNRS and Sciences Po in Paris. He is a Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California at San Diego, at theInstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) at the University of Bonn, and the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. During the last academic year (2015-16) he was named as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and has continued his work there as a Global Fellow. In 2016 Hollifield received a Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.