Michael Jones-Correa

Michael Jones-Correa (PhD Princeton) is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, with research interests in Inter-ethnic contact and coalition-building in urban politics; immigrant incorporation, naturalization and political mobilization; and Latino politics and public opinion. He is co-author of Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants (Russell Sage 2020), Latinos in the New Millennium (Cambridge, 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home(Temple, 2010), 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 co-editor of Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford 2013.  He has published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science and the Social Science Quarterly, among other journals.  

Among other projects, Jones-Correa was a co-PI of the 2012 and 2016 Latino Immigrant National Election Study; the Philadelphia-Atlanta Project, a collaborative research project on contact, trust and civic participation among immigrant and native-born residents of Philadelphia and Atlanta; and the 2006 Latino National Survey, a national state-stratified survey of Latinos in the United States. His research has received support from the Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Robert Wood Johnson, Russell Sage and National Science foundations. At the University of Pennsylvania, he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI)

Jones-Correa serves on the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, having previously served on the Board of Overseers for the American National Election Studies (ANES) Board of Overseers, as Chair of the Council for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), on the Committee on the Redesign of US Naturalization Test for the National Academy of Sciences, as well as vice president of the American Political Science Association. He was previously on the faculty of Harvard and Cornell universities, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, as well as being appointed as the John L. Kluge Chair at the Library of Congress. In 2025 was elected as the Robert A. Dahl Fellow to the National Academy of Political and Social Science.