Douglas Massey

Douglas S. Massey (born 1952 in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States. He received his B.A. in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington University in 1974, and in 1977 he received an M.A. in Sociology from Princeton University. Massey continued at Princeton University and received his PhD in 1978. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1990–1991. He...