Barry Chiswick
University of
Illinois-Chicago
Head and Research Professor
Director, UIC Center for Economic Education
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Ten Myths of Immigration
Public Lecture
Thursday, October 23, 7-8pm
Burgiss Theater (CLP)
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Economics of Language
Department Seminar: Thursday, October 23, 3:00pm
Reception: 10:00am, Friday, October 24, Hipp Hall, 2nd floor
(Seminar location to be announced)
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Barry R. Chiswick, UIC Distinguished Professor
(since 2002), is also Research Professor (since 1978) and Head (since
1987) of the Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
(UIC). In addition, he is a Research Professor in the Department of
Sociology and in the Survey Research Laboratory at UIC and Founding
Director of the UIC Center for Economic Education (2000). Since 2004,
he has been Program Director for Migration Studies at IZA.
Professor Chiswick received his Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics
from Columbia University (1967) and has held permanent and visiting
appointments at UCLA, Columbia University, CUNY, Stanford University,
Princeton University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv
University, University of Haifa, and the University of Chicago. From
1973 to 1977 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the President's Council
of Economic Advisers. He is a former chairman of the American
Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee, current President of
the European Society for Population Economics, past president of the
Midwest Economics Association and the Illinois Economics Association,
and a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, as well as to
the World Bank and other international organizations. He is currently
the Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and
Research in Economics of the Household, and on the editorial boards of
four additional academic journals.
Professor Chiswick has an international reputation for his research in
Labor Economics, Human Resources, the Economics of Immigration, the
Economics of Minorities, the Economics of Religion, Economics of
Language, and Income Distribution. He is recognized as having done the
seminal research on the Economics of Immigration, and continues to be
the leader in the field. His research has been published in 14 books
and monographs and in over 140 scholarly journal articles and chapters
in books, in addition to other publications. His latest book is The
Economics of Language (with Paul W. Miller), Routledge, 2007. His
research is cited frequently in textbooks and in the academic
literature. In addition to numerous seminar and conference
presentations in the United States, Professor Chiswick has lectured in
22 other countries.
Professor Chiswick has received numerous awards for his research,
including an appointment as Distinguished Professor at UIC, a Fulbright
(Research) Fellowship, the Senior University Scholar Award from the
University of Illinois, the UIC College of Business Administration
Alumni Award for Distinguished Research (first recipient), the Carleton
C. Qualey Article Award from the Immigration History Society (first
recipient), the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic
Research, and the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the
Social Scientific Study of Jewry. He delivered the Julian Simon Lecture
(2007) at the IZA Annual Migration Meeting in Bonn. He also received
the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Brooklyn College (1999) for his
research on immigrants and minorities.
Professor Chiswick is frequently interviewed by the print and
electronic media on a range of labor market issues, especially
immigration and minorities. He has published policy analyses of these
issues in newspapers and magazines, has testified before Congress on
pending legislation, and given public lectures to community groups on
these and related issues. His policy recommendations regarding the
reform of immigration law have influenced the public debate and
legislation.
Dr. Chiswick's visit is jointly sponsored by the Department of
Economics and Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow.
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