2014 commencement: Douglas Massey

Douglas Massey, the speaker at the 4 p.m. commencement ceremony June 14, is a sociologist specializing in international migration and socioeconomic stratification.

At Princeton University, Massey directs the Office of Population Research and oversees the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project, two long-term studies exploring the complex causes and consequences of migration. Massey also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990 to write "American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass," one of his many comprehensive studies of how inequality is produced in the United States.