He received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington University in 1974, and in 1977 he received an Master of Arts in Sociology from Princeton University. Massey continued at Princeton University and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1978.
Career
Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson 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 was a Guggenheim fellow in 1990–1991.
Massey was president of the Population Association of America in 1996.
Since 2006 he has been president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. In 2008, he received a special recognition from the World Cultural Council.
Massey"s research areas include: Demography Urban Sociology Race and Ethnicity International Migration Latin American Society, particularly Mexico 2007: Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System X Massey, Massey.
Achievements
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
He is Board Member of the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konfliktund Gewaltforschung (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence) at Bielefeld University and Editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.