Philip Kasinitz is presidential professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He previously served as the director of the program in international migration studies (IMS) from and chaired the CUNY doctoral program in sociology. He specializes in immigration, ethnicity, race relations, urban social life and the nature of contemporary cities. He is the author of Caribbean New York for which he won the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Award in 1996. His co-authored book Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age won the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Book Award in 2009 and the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book award in 2010. In addition to publications in scholarly journals Kasinitz is frequently quoted in media venues and his work has appeared in CNN On Line, The New York Daily News, New York Newsday, Dissent, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal and Lingua Franca.