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José Itzigsohn wins the 2016 Faculty Award for Advising & Mentoring

May 3, 2016

Professor of Sociology and CLACS Affiliated Faculty José Itzigsohn was recently awarded with the 2016 Faculty Award for Advising & Mentoring. We wish him congratulations!

José Itzigsohn is professor of Sociology and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He received his PhD in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University (1995). He is the author of two books (Encountering American Faultlines andDeveloping Poverty) and numerous articles on migrant transnationalism, immigrant incorporation, ethnic and racial identities on the one hand, and informal economies, cooperatives, and the state on the other. He works within the world-system theoretical paradigm, but is interested in the local variations within the world economic and political systems. He investigates how local and regional institutional forms and identity formation processes develop and interact with world-systemic trends.