| Douglas S. Massey | |
| Birth Date: | 5 October 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Olympia, Washington, U.S. |
| Workplaces: | Princeton University |
| Alma Mater: | Western Washington University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Residential Segregation of Spanish Americans in United States Urbanized Areas |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/302907881/A1AA0DDA816F4B3BPQ |
| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Main Interests: | Sociology, immigration, residential segregation |
| Spouse: | Susan Fiske |
| Discipline: | Sociology |
Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Princeton 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 has been president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.[1]
Massey received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington University in 1974. In 1977 he received a Master of Arts in Sociology from Princeton University, and a PhD in 1978. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1990–1991.
Douglas S. Massey is the founder and co-director of the Latin American Migration Project,[2] and the Mexican Migration Project with his long-time collaborator Jorge G. Durand.[3] He is Board Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt und Gewaltforschung) at Bielefeld University, a past editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.[1]
Massey was president of the Population Association of America in 1996. He served as the 92nd president of the American Sociological Association, 2000–2001,[4] From 2006 to 2015, he was the president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[5] In 2008, he received a special recognition from the World Cultural Council.[6]
Massey's research areas include:demography, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, international migration, and Latin American society, particularly Mexico.[7]