ARISTIDE R. ZOLBERG is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of New School University in New York City and director of its 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 Commit-tee on Histori-cal Studies as well as chair of the NSU component of -the New York City Consortium on European Studies.  He held the University-in-Exile Chair from its founding in1984 to 2002. Currently, he is a member of the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on International Migration, as well as 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). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch / Africa. He was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Republic as well as honored by the New York Association for New Americans, and has served on the board of the American Political Science Association.

Professor Zolberg has published exten-sively in the fields of comparative politics and histori-cal sociology in both English and French. Within his initial specialization in African studies, he is best known for One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast  (Princeton University Press, 1964; rev. ed., 1969); Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa (1966; reprinted University of Chicago Press, 1985); and as co-editor (with Philip Foster) and contributing author to Ghana and the Ivory Coast: Patterns of Modernization (University of Chicago Press, 1971).  He has also written extensively on state- and nation-formation in Europe and the United States, notably Working-Class Forma-tion: Nineteenth Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States (Princeton, 1986; co-edited with Ira Katznelson, contributing author). In the field of immigration and refugee studies, he is co-author (with Astri Suhrke and Sergio Aguyao) of Escape from Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World (Oxford, 1989; translated into Dutch); co-editor (with Peter Benda) of Global Migrants, Global Refugees (Berghahn, 2001). and co-editor (with Martin Schain and Patrick Hossay) of Shadows over Europe (Palgrave, 2002).  He is currently completing A Nation by Design? Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (forthcoming, Harvard University Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).

Recent articles and contributed chapters include “Why Islam is like Spanish” (with Long Litt Woon), Politics and Society (Spring 1999); “Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy,” in: Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind (eds.), The Handbook of International Migration (New York: Russell Sage, 2000); “À nouveaux maux, nouveaux remèdes: les obligations de la communauté internationale au seuil du XXIe siècle,” in: Françoise Barret-Ducrocq (ed.), Migrations et Errances (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2000); “Language Policy,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; “International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective,” in Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter (eds.), Conceived in Trade and War (Princeton University Press, 2002); and “The Archaeology of ‘Remote Control’,” in Andreas Fahrmeir, Olivier Faron, and Patrick Weil (eds.), Migration Control in the North Atlantic World. The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period (New York: Berghahn Books, 2003) ); and Sharing Integration Experiences: Innovative Practices on Two Continents (with Allison Joy Clarkin). Professor Zolberg is currently also completing a research project on immigration and religion in New York City (with Prof. José Casanova

Born in Belgium, Professor Zolberg 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 Univer-sity of Chicago, where he was a member of the Committee for the Comparative Study of New Nations and served as Chair of the Department of Political Science. He has also been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and held visiting appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School of Inter-national Affairs, Princeton University; the Department of Political Science of the University of Paris I, the Institut d'Études Politi-ques, the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socia-les, and the Collège de France, also in Paris; the Post-Graduate Institute of Sociolo-gy, Amster-dam; the Institüt für Höhere Studien, Vienna; the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo; and the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City (Visiting Scholar, 1999-2000). He has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the United States Institute of Peace, as well as the Ford, Rockefeller, and MacArthur Foundations, the Pew Charity Trust, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Professor Zolberg may be reached at arizol@newschool.edu.