Douglas S. Massey

Douglas Massey is the Henry G. Bryant professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He has also held professorships at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago. Massey is a demographer who has made fundamental contributions to studies of race relations and international migrations. He is the author or coauthor of seventeen books including American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, and Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States. He is a member of the Committee on National Statistics, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Among his many honors and awards, he has served as the president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University.