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Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University
Council Member

Michael Jones-Correa is an Associate Professor of Government and Director of American Studies at Cornell University.  He taught at Harvard University as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Government from 1994 to 2001, and has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars 2003-2004 and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation 1998-1999.   Active in the discipline, Jones-Correa has been a co-chair of the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos in the Profession, and has served on the executive councils of the Urban Politics and Race and Ethnic Politics sections as well as the James Madison Award Committee.  He was Program co-chair for APSA's Race and Ethnic Politics section in 2001, and MPSA's Race, Class and Ethnicity section in 2005.

Jones-Correa is the author of Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell, 1998), the editor of Governing American Cities: Inter-Ethnic Coalitions, Competition and Conflict (Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on topics ranging from the diffusion of racial restrictive covenants to religion and political participation, and from the role of gender in shaping immigrant politics to dual nationality.  He is currently conducting studies on the implications of increasing racial/ethnic diversity in suburbia and the re-negotiation of ethnic relations in the aftermath of civil disturbances, and the design of a new national, state-stratified survey of Latinos in the U.S.  In his writing Jones-Correa addresses questions concerning the incorporation of new actors into democratic politics and the evolution of democratic institutions as they are confronted by the demands of these new actors, the application of these questions to new substantive areas; and the implementation of a broad range of methodological tools to answer the questions posed.