Faculty
Michael Jones-Correa
Office: 305 White Hall
Tel: (607) 255-3170
Fax: (607) 255-4530
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› Curriculum Vitae
Michael Jones-Correa is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the co-author of Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple 2010), the author of Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell, 1998) and the editor of Governing American Cities: Interethnic Coalitions, Competition, and Conflict (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), as well as the author of more than two dozen articles and chapters on immigration, race, ethnicity and citizenship in the United States.
Professor Jones-Correa is currently working on several major projects, among them one looking at increasing ethnic diversity of suburbs, and its implication for local and national politics; another continuing the analysis of the 2006 Latino National Survey, a national state-stratified survey of Latinos in the United States for which he was a principal investigator; and collaborative research on inter-ethnic relations in new immigrant-receiving areas in the United States. He is the team leader for the 2010-2013 theme project “Immigration: Settlement, Immigration and Membership,” at the Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell.
Jones-Correa has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation 1998-1999, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 2003-2004, and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University in 2009-2010. In 2004-2005 he served on the Committee on the Redesign of US Naturalization Test for the National Academy of Sciences, in 2009 was elected as vice president of the American Political Science Association, and was appointed in 2010 to the American National Election Studies (ANES) Board of Overseers.