Old Science Building, Suite Email. During the academic year, he is on research leave as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Born and raised in Chicago, Professor De Genova is a scholar of migration, borders, race, citizenship, and labor. His academic work has contributed to multiple disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, and political science, as well as contributing to the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, migration studies, border studies, citizenship studies, sociolegal studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies, American studies, Latin American studies, and European studies.
He is also a social and political theorist and critic. Professor De Genova's scholarship has garnered international attention. De Genova has been invited to speak to diverse academic audiences in more than 35 countries, on 7 continents. Professor De Genova has professional academic experience in four countries.
His subsequent research concerned the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship in the United States in the aftermath of the so-called War on Terror, as well as the securitization of human mobility and the diverse experiences of migrant labor and borders on a global scale.
During several years based in Europe, his work also came to engage with the intersections of migration, racialization, border struggles, and the production of urban space in the European context. This project is focused on concepts, categories, and other notions that are often widely used in both political theory and the migration and refugee studies literatures, but which remain remarkably under-theorized, and which hitherto have lacked any extensive political and historical genealogy.
This network involved 23 co-authors from 13 countries, working collaboratively on 11 topics. Nicholas De Genova was also the Host of the first four episodes of the podcast, Metropolis Rising launched in February
