David FitzGerald

Commission Member

David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

FitzGerald's research analyzes policies regulating international migration in countries of origin, transit, and destination. His books include Culling the Masses: The Democratic Roots of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2014), which won the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.FitzGerald’s current projects include directing the California Immigration Research Initiative and writing a book on the externalization of borders to deter asylum seekers from entering the Global North. FitzGerald co-directs the San Diego hub of the Scholars Strategy Network and was awarded the ASA International Migration Section’s “Award for Public Sociology” in 2013.