Philip Kasinitz (born September 18, 1957) is an American sociologist. He is currently a Presidential Professor of Sociology at the

CUNY Graduate Center The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (CUNY Graduate Center) is a public research institution and post-graduate university in New York City. Serving as the principal doctorate-granting institution of the Ci ...

where he has chaired the doctoral program in Sociology since 2001. Kasinitz graduated

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in 1979 and earned his doctorate from

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in 1987, where he studied primarily with

Richard Sennett Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalis ...

and

Dennis Wrong Dennis Hume Wrong (November 22, 1923 – November 8, 2018) was a Canadian-born American sociologist and emeritus professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Wrong was the author of several books, including two essay collecti ...

. He specializes in immigration, ethnicity, race relations, urban social life and the nature of contemporary cities. Much of his work focuses on New York. He is the author of ''Caribbean New York'' for which he won the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award in 1996. His co-authored book ''Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age'' won the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Book Award in 2009 and the

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in 2010. Kasinitz served as the President of th
Eastern Sociological Society
in 2007-2008 and was awarded the Society’s “Merritt” Award for career contributions in 2015. Since 2005 he has been the book review editor of the ESS journal, Sociological Forum. He is a member of the Historical Advisory Board of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and a former member of the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on International Migration and the Russell Sage Foundation’s committee to study the social effects of 9-11 on New York City. Kasinitz is frequently quoted in media venues and his work has appeared in ''CNN On Line'', ''

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'' as well as in numerous academic journals. Prior to coming to the

, Kasinitz taught at

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. He has held visiting appointments at

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and the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

Selected publications

*
Global Cities, Local Streets
' (with Sharon Zukin and Xiangming Chen), Routledge, 2015. *

' (co-edited with Mitchell Duneier and Alexandra Murphy), Oxford University Press, 2013. *
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
' (with

John Mollenkopf John Hull Mollenkopf (born March 16, 1946) is an American political scientist, sociologist, and professor. He is recognized for his analyses of US urban politics conducted in the latter part of the twentieth century, contributions to progressive deb ...

, Mary C. Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway), Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2008. *
Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
' (co-edited with Mary C. Waters and John H. Mollenkopf), Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2004. *
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
' (with Charles Hirschman and Josh Dewind), Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. *

', London: MacMillan Ltd. and New York University Press, 1995. *

', Cornell University Press, 1992.

References

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