About

2016-9-4_davidcookmartin0754medDavid Cook-Martín is William Burwell Harrison Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill. His work as a political sociologist focuses on understanding migration, labor, race, ethnicity, law, and citizenship in an international field of power. Geographically, his work has focused on the Americas, but also on Southern Europe. Most recently, his project on temporary labor migration schemes examines cases in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates (subject of his forthcoming book Workers without Rights: The Making of Temporary Labor Migration since Abolition (under contract with Oxford University Press). David’s award winning books include Culling the Masses (Harvard 2014), coauthored with David FitzGerald (received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award and the 2017 Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award, among other awards), and The Scramble for Citizens (Stanford 2012) received the  Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award (International Migration Section, ASA). See Book page for additional information.

Before moving to UNC Chapel Hill, David  served as Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder; professor of sociology and Program Head of New York University Abu Dhabi’s Social Research and Public Policy (SRPP), a faculty member in the sociology department at Grinnell College and as that institution’s Assistant Vice President for Global Education and director of the Institute for Global Engagement. David has been a fellow of the Institute for Behavioral Science (Cu Boulder), a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, a member of the Global Decentre initiative, a former Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latin American Sociology (UCLA), and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow (UC Irvine).

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Email: dcookm at gmail dot com