Director, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University

James F. Hollifield is the Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, and Director of International Studies at Southern Methodist University. He has held faculty appointments at Auburn, Brandeis, and Duke Universities. In 1992 he served as Associate Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (FNSP) in Paris. From 1986 to 1992 he served as Research Associate at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and co-chair of the French study group, and in 1991-92 served as an Associate at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Government, as well as several organizations, including the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Mr. Hollifield has written numerous articles and books, including Controlling Immigration (Second edition, Stanford University Press, 2002) with Wayne Cornelius and Philip Martin and his most recent book, Immigration et L'Etat-Nation (Immigration and the Nation-State), published by l'Harmattan, Paris. He is the co-editor of Migration Theory, Talking Across Disciplines (Routledge, 2000) with Caroline B. Bretell. His teaching interests lie primarily in the areas of international and comparative political economy. Mr. Hollifield received a Ph.D. in political science from Duke University in 1985.