Professor Director of the Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs

James F. Hollifield holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and is the Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, a Professor in the Department of Political Science, and the Director of the Tower Center at SMU in Dallas. He is also a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Hollifield has advised various governments and international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, and OECD. He chairs working groups at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s NCCR for Migration and Mobility. He has received grants from numerous foundations and government agencies.

His major works include Immigrants, Markets and States (Harvard), Migration Theory (Routledge), and Controlling Immigration (Stanford), among others. His current projects include The Migration State (Harvard) and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge).

Hollifield has taught at Brandeis and Auburn, and has held research positions at Harvard and MIT. He has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association and is a Fellow at various academic centers, including the University of California at San Diego.

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