BIOGRAPHIES
ELIZABETH GRIECO
Elizabeth Grieco is the data manager for MPI's Migration Information Source a one-stop, web-based migration resource for journalists, policymakers, opinion shapers, and researchers. Before joining MPI, Dr. Grieco worked for the U.S. Census Bureau as a Statistician/Demographer, focusing primarily on the analysis of race data from Census 2000.
Dr. Grieco is the author of several publications on data, migration and race including Census 2010 and the Foreign Born: Averting the Data Crisis, MPI Policy Brief; "An Evaluation of Bridging Methods Using Race Data from Census 2000," Population Research and Policy Review; "Triumphant Transitions: Socioeconomic Achievements of the Second Generation in Canada," (co-authored with Monica Boyd) and "The Effects of Migration on the Establishment of Networks: Caste Disintegration and Reformation Among the Indians of Fiji," both in International Migration Review. She also authored several Census 2000 briefs including The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2000, The White Population: 2000, and Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000 (co-authored with Rachel C. Cassidy). She is the author of "Will Remittances Continue Through Time? A New Answer to an Old Question," in the International Journal of Multicultural Studies as well as The Remittance Behavior of Migrant Households: Micronesians in Hawaii and Guam published by LFB Scholarly in 2003.
She received her PhD in Sociology and Demography from Florida State University, with a focus on international migration studies; an MA in Anthropology from the University of Kansas; and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Cincinnati.
DAVID G. GUTIÉRREZ
David G. Gutiérrez is a member of the History faculty at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A specialist in Mexican American history and comparative immigration and ethnic studies, he has also taught at the University of Utah, Stanford University, and the California Institute of Technology. His publications include Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (1995) and an edited volume, Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants in the United States (1996). Another edited volume, The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States since 1960, will be published by Columbia University Press in May. He is currently working on a book-length study entitled, A More Perfect Union? Immigrants, Ethnics and the Debate over American Citizenship in the Twentieth Century.
MICHAEL JONES-CORREA
Michael Jones-Correa, currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, is an Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. He taught at Harvard University as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Government from 1994 to 2001, and has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation 1998-1999.
His research interests include immigrant politics and immigration policy, minority politics and inter-ethnic relations in the United States, and urban and suburban politics. He is the author of Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell, 1998), and the editor of Governing American Cities: Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition and Conflict (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001). Jones-Correa has also written more than a dozen articles and book chapters on, among other things, the diffusion of racial restrictive covenants, religion and political participation, Latino identity and politics, the role of gender in shaping immigrant politics, dual nationality, immigrant naturalization and voting, and Hispanics as a foreign policy lobby.
He is currently completing a book looking at the re-negotiation of ethnic relations in the aftermath of civil disturbances in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D.C. and engaged in two additional projects: one on the increasing ethnic diversity of suburbs, and its implication for local and national politics, and the other the design of a new national and state-by-state survey of Latinos in the United States.
DEMETRIOS G. PAPADEMETRIOU
Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of international migration. He is also the convener of the Athens Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), a task force of mostly European senior immigration experts that advises EU members states on immigration and asylum issues, and the Co-Founder and International Chair Emeritus of “Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities.”
Mr. Papademetriou holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Public Policy and International Relations (1976) and has taught at the universities of Maryland, Duke, American, and New School for Social Research. He has held a wide range of senior positions that include: Chair of the Migration Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor’s Immigration Policy Task Force; and Executive Editor of the International Migration Review.
Mr. Papademetriou has published nearly 200 books, articles, monographs and research reports on migration and refugee topics and advises senior government and political party officials in more than twenty countries. His most recent books include NAFTA’s Promise and Reality (2003, co-author), America’s Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity after September 11 (2003, co-author), and Caught in the Middle: Border Communities in an Era of Globalization (2001, senior editor and co-author.)
ANDREW D. SELEE
Andrew D. Selee is Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, which promotes dialogue and policy research on U.S.-Mexico relations. He was previously Senior Program Associate in the Center's Latin American Program. He is co-editor of Mexico’s Politics and Society in Transition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2003), Chiapas: Interpretaciones sobre la negociación y la paz (Mexico City: UNAM, 2003), and Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective: Africa, Asia, and Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2004), as well as several articles on Mexican and world politics.
Selee is a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the USA, the largest non-profit membership organization in the United States, and chair of its International Committee. He has served previously on the board of the World Alliance of YMCAs in Geneva, Switzerland and as staff of the Mexican Federation of YMCAs. He has also worked as a staff aide to Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA) and as a consultant for the Peace Corps.
He holds a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Washington University in St. Louis (1991) and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego (1999). He is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Policy Studies at the University of Maryland.
JESÚS SILVA HERZOG-MÁRQUEZ
Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez is professor at the Law School of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He is currently a Mexico Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, in a joint program with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in 1998.
Professor Silva-Herzog writes a weekly column in the newspaper Reforma and is a regular contributor to other Mexican publications, including Letras Libres. He is the author of Esferas de la democracia (Spheres of Democracy) and El antiguo régimen y la transición en México (The Ancienne Regime and the Transition in Mexico). He appears regularly as a radio commentator and previously appeared on the television program "Primer Plano."
He studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Political Science at Columbia University in New York.
RICARDO STANTON-SALAZAR
Ricardo Stanton-Salazar is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and Associate Professor of Education and Sociology at the University of Southern Calfornia. He was previously an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Associate Director of USC's Center for American Studies and Ethnicity. Stanton-Salazar is also a recipient of the American Sociological Association Latino Section Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in 2003.
His research interests center on the social networks and academic achievement strategies of minority and immigrant urban youth, including a current research project oncommunity-based youth intervention programs. He is the author of Manufacturing Hope and Despair: The School and Kin Support Methods of U.S.-Mexican Youth.
Selected Publications
Journal article or chapter in: "The Network Orientations of Highly Resilient Urban Minority Youth," in The Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education (2000, Vol. 32, 3), co-authored with Stephanie Spina.
Journal article or chapter in: "Defensive Network Orientations as Internalized Oppression: How Schools Mediate the Influence of Social Class on Adolescent Development," in the edited volume, Social Class, Poverty, and Education (2001), by Routledge Falmer.
Journal article or chapter in: "The Mexican American Second Generation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," ), co-authored with David López, in the edited volume, Ethnicities: Coming of Age in Immigrant America (2001), by UC Press & Russell Sage.
Journal article or chapter in: "The Help-seeking Orientations of White and Latino High School Students: A Critical-Sociological Investigation," co-authored with Lisa F. Chávez and Robert H. Tai, in Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal (Volume 5, 49-82).
PHILIPPA STRUM
Philippa Strum is the Director of the Division of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Broeklundian Professor of Political Science Emerita, Brooklyn College. She is a political scientist specializing in U.S. government and constitutional law, civil liberties and human rights, and women, law and politics.
Dr. Strum taught at City University of New York for more than two decades. She has also taught at New York University, Rutgers University, Wayne State University Law School, Barnard College of Columbia University, Bogazici Universitesi (Istanbul), Oregon State University, and Virginia Commonwealth University, and has lectured at, e.g., Cornell University, University of Melbourne, St. Cross College of Oxford University, Birzeit University (West Bank), College of William and Mary, and the University of Oregon. The recipient of various fellowships, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Fulbright foundation, she has been an expert lecturer for the Department of State (United States Information Agency) – most recently in Turkey and Tunisia.
Dr. Strum has published widely on topics such as women and politics, the U.S. Supreme Court, and civil liberties. Among her books and articles are The Women Are Marching: The Second Sex in the Palestinian Revolution (1992), Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights (2002, recipient of awards from the American Bar Association and the American Society for Legal Writing), When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for the Speech We Hate (1999, recipient of an American Bar Association award), Privacy: The Debate in the United States Since 1945 (1998), and Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People (1984, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography).
A member of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Board of Directors since 1979, Dr. Strum now serves as its national secretary.
ROBERTO SURO
Roberto Suro is director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington-based research and policy analysis organization. The Center is a project of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication where Suro is on the faculty as a research professor. The Center was founded in July, 2001 with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Through public opinion surveys and a variety of research projects, the Center serves as a source of non-partisan information on the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implications for the nation as a whole.
A former journalist, Suro has nearly 30 years of experience writing on Hispanic issues and immigration. He is author of Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America, (Vintage) as well as numerous reports, articles and other publications regarding the growth of the Latino population. During his career in journalism Suro worked for TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications. He worked extensively in Washington, did tours as a domestic correspondent in Chicago and Houston and was posted as a foreign correspondent in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA, 1973) and Columbia University (MS, 1974).