Dr. Wayne Cornelius
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Wayne A. Cornelius Director Emeritus, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of Theodore E. Gildred Distinguished Professor of Political Science and U.S.-Mexican Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Room 103, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0548 Wayne Cornelius is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Mexican immigration and U.S. immigration policy, as well as immigration policies in Spain and Japan. He is also a specialist on Mexican politics and development. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 253 publications dealing with these subjects. His work has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Catalán, and Japanese. He is a Past President of the Latin American Studies Association, the world’s largest organization of professional Latin Americanists. He is a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany) and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York). Professor Cornelius graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in Political Science and Latin American Studies, from The College of Wooster (Ohio), which chose him for its 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award. His Ph.D. (in political science) is from Stanford University. He was Professor of Political Science at MIT from 1971 to 1979, when he joined the UCSD faculty. He founded UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies in 1979 and directed it from 1979-1994 and 2001-2003. In 1999 he established UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and directed it until 2009. His teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels has been recognized by the MIT Graduate Council Award for Teaching Excellence, the UCSD Alumni Association’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the UCSD Academic Senate’s Distinguished Teaching Award (twice, in 2004 and 2009), the UCSD Latino Students’ Award for Faculty Mentoring, and the American Political Science Association’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Distinguished Teaching in Political Science. Cornelius conducted field research in Mexico and the United States from 1970-2009, and in Japan and Spain from 1992-2008. From 2004-2009 he led the UCSD-based Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program, which conducts annual, in-depth studies of migrant-sending and receiving communities in Mexico and the United States. His recent books include Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (co-author/co-editor; 2nd ed., Stanford University Press, 2004); Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (co-author/editor; CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007); Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States (co-author/editor, CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007), Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico (co-author/co-editor, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), Four Generations of Norteños: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration (co-author/editor, CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California (co-author/editor, CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), and Mexican Migration and the U.S. Economic Crisis : A Transnational Perspective (co-author/editor, CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009). His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Times of London, Newsweek, US News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” and “Marketplace,” PBS’ NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS’ Front Line, the BBC World Service, CNN Presents, CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” NBC Nightly News, ABC Evening News, and HBO Documentary Films. Please click here to see a bio of Dr. Cornelius's canine therapy dog, Nena. |