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Wayne A. Cornelius
Wayne A. Cornelius (born July 15, 1945) is an American political scientist known for his work on comparative immigration policy, Mexican politics, and U.S.-Mexican relations. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD). At UCSD he was the inaugural holder of the Theodore Edmonds Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations. He is also Director Emeritus of UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and its Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
In 1985 he was elected the 17th President of the Latin American Studies Association, the world's largest organization for scholars of Latin American studies.
He was born on July 15, 1945 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Cornelius received an A.B. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from The College of Wooster (1967; Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009), where he double-majored in Political Science and Latin American Studies. He later received his Ph.D. in political science at Stanford University, with a dissertation on political learning among low-income migrants in Mexico City.
Cornelius' career has been deeply entwined with Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish as a high school student. From 1970 through 2015, he conducted field research in various Mexican states nearly every year.
After a research fellowship at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, in 1971 he joined the Political Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor; he was promoted to full professor in 1978. In 1979 he became a member of the political science faculty at UCSD, where he remained for 36 years, retiring in 2015. He was also a core faculty member in UCSD's Division of Global Public Health in the School of Medicine, specializing in immigrant and trans-border health. He now lectures at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and the University of Portland's School of Nursing and Health Innovations.
He also held visiting professorships at Princeton University, Harvard, the University of Oxford (St. Antony's and Nuffield colleges), and Reed College.
He has been a research fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, the Institute for the Study of Labor (Germany).
He is an Associated Fellow of the Global Labor Organization, a nongovernmental organization for research and policy. He has been an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).
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Wayne A. Cornelius
Wayne A. Cornelius (born July 15, 1945) is an American political scientist known for his work on comparative immigration policy, Mexican politics, and U.S.-Mexican relations. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD). At UCSD he was the inaugural holder of the Theodore Edmonds Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations. He is also Director Emeritus of UCSD's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and its Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.
In 1985 he was elected the 17th President of the Latin American Studies Association, the world's largest organization for scholars of Latin American studies.
He was born on July 15, 1945 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. Cornelius received an A.B. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from The College of Wooster (1967; Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009), where he double-majored in Political Science and Latin American Studies. He later received his Ph.D. in political science at Stanford University, with a dissertation on political learning among low-income migrants in Mexico City.
Cornelius' career has been deeply entwined with Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish as a high school student. From 1970 through 2015, he conducted field research in various Mexican states nearly every year.
After a research fellowship at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, in 1971 he joined the Political Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor; he was promoted to full professor in 1978. In 1979 he became a member of the political science faculty at UCSD, where he remained for 36 years, retiring in 2015. He was also a core faculty member in UCSD's Division of Global Public Health in the School of Medicine, specializing in immigrant and trans-border health. He now lectures at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) and the University of Portland's School of Nursing and Health Innovations.
He also held visiting professorships at Princeton University, Harvard, the University of Oxford (St. Antony's and Nuffield colleges), and Reed College.
He has been a research fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, the Institute for the Study of Labor (Germany).
He is an Associated Fellow of the Global Labor Organization, a nongovernmental organization for research and policy. He has been an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).