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LATIN AMERICANIST FACULTY

Name: Wayne Cornelius
Professor, Political Science; Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1974

Field of Expertise: Cornelius is an expert on the political economy of immigration, immigration policy in advanced industrial nations, U.S.-Mexican relations, and Mexican politics.

Region of Interest: Mexico, Spain, Japan

Media Interview Topics: Cornelius can provide commentary on contemporary Mexican politics as well as the causes and impacts of Mexican immigration to the United States. He can also comment on immigration policy and immigrant labor in the United States, Japan, Spain and other advanced industrial countries.

Selected Publications:
Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico (co-author/co-editor, University of Notre Dame Press , 2007)

Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States (co-author/editor, CCIS/Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007),