Douglas S. Massey | |
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| Born | October 5, 1952 Olympia, Washington, U.S. |
| Spouse | Susan Fiske |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Western Washington University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Residential Segregation of Spanish Americans in United States Urbanized Areas (1978) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Main interests | Sociology, immigration, residential segregation |
Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States. He has been president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.[1]