John MOLLENKOPF

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John MOLLENKOPF

Born in 1946, John Mollenkopf is one of the most influential scholars of urban politics, urban policy, the comparative analysis of cities, and the impact of immigration in comparative perspective in the United States. In addition to his profoundly important work on American cities, he has also championed the comparative analysis of urban processes in West Europe and the United States.

Currently serving as Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and director of its Center for Urban Research, he has published sixteen books on urban politics, urban policy, and race, ethnicity, and immigration. Much of his recent work has focused on comparative perspectives on the political and social incorporation of new immigrant groups. His Inheriting the City : The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, co-authored with Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway (Russell Sage Foundation, 2009) received the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association as well as several other awards. His recent The Changing Face of World Cities (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012) co-edited with Maurice Crul, provides the first rigorous comparison of second generation outcomes in West Europe and the U.S. He is also currently analyzing how the rise of new immigrant communities is reshaping New York City politics, with comparisons to Los Angeles. His Bringing Outsiders In : Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political incorporation (Cornell University Press, 2009, co-edited with Jennifer Hochschild) compares the challenges of immigrant political incorporation in West Europe and the U.S.

He has also written about many other aspects of urban politics and policy. A member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Resilient Regions, his Place Matters : A Metropolitics for the 21st Century (University Press of Kansas, 2003), with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom, won the 2002 Michael Harrington Award of the American Political Science Association. His A Phoenix In The Ashes : The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New York City Politics (Princeton 1994) analyzed why conservative mayoral coalitions have been persistently successful in liberal New York City, while his Contested City (Princeton University Press, 1983), is a definitive study of the rise of progrowth coalitions in American cities and challenges to them.

Mollenkopf’s many awards, include a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2011-2012), a commuting membership in a group of Visiting Scholars at the Radcliffe Institute (2003-2004), and a Visting Scholarship at the Russell Sage Foundation (2001-2002). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam as well as at Sciences Po in Paris. He currently serves on the International Scientific Advisory Council of the Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies and the selection committee of the “Settling into Motion” PhD fellowship of the Zeit Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany. He also coordinates the Graduate Center’s urban exchange program with Humboldt University, Berlin, and CUNY’s involvement in the Berlin-New York-Toronto International Graduate Collegium based at the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technical University, Berlin.

Mollenkopf has extensive experience with local government and national urban policy. He has been a consultant to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at the national level as well as the Department of Homeless Services, Law Department, Department of Youth and Community Development, New York City Council, New York City Districting Commission, and the 1988-1989 Charter Revision Commissions in New York City. From 1991 to 1993, he was Program Director for Urban Initiatives at the Social Science Research Council and chaired SSRC’s Committee on New York City from 1989 to 1991. Prior to joining the Graduate Center in 1981, he directed the New York City Department of City Planning’s Economic Development Division and taught urban studies and public management at Stanford University. He received his PhD from Harvard and BA from Carleton College.

John Mollenkopf is not only one of the leading American urban sociologists. He is also a key scholar in the transatlantic academic dialogue on urban and migration issues.