Rey Koslowski
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy,
Rockefeller College of Public
Affairs and Policy and Associate
Professor of Informatics, College
of Computing
and Information,University
at Albany (SUNY). Director
of the Center for Policy Research Program
on Border Control and Homeland Security.
Rey Koslowski received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. His primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration, information technology, homeland security. He has held Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-2004), the Center of International Studies at Princeton University (1999-2000) and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (1996-97). Recent research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and a fellowship at the Bellagio Dialogue on Migration of the German Marshall Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is currently a Nonresident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. He has served as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA), serves as Associate Editor of Global Networks, and is a member of the editorial board of International Migration Review.
Koslowski is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implemention of US-VISIT (Washingon: Migration Policy Institute, 2005); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001). His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Cambridge Journal of International Studies and The Brown Journal of World Affairs.
Koslowski is often interviewed and widely quoted in the press, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Dallas Morning News. He has been interviewed for Dying to Leave, a documentary aired by PBS as well as national and international radio, including American Public Media's Marketplace Morning Report, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Contact info:
Department of Political Science
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
135 Western Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
O: 518-442-5314
F: 518-442-5298
E:rkoslowski@uamail.albany.edu
Upcoming and Recent Presentations
Current Research Projects:
Professor Koslowski' current research project “International Migration, Border Control and Homeland Security in the Information Age,” examines efforts by the United States and other advanced industrialized countries to selectively control migration using new information technologies in order to shape flows of human capital to the needs of information technology-driven, globalizing economies. This project is a central focus of the Center for Policy Research's Program on Border Control and Homeland Security. The project has been supported by a Research and Writing Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Proposed Research Projects:
"Online Case Studies of Diasporas and Emigrant Participation in Homeland Politics" is a proposed collaborative project that intends to develop a set of online case studies that would include basic information about the emigrant communities of all UN member states (or as many as possible). For more information about the project as well as how you might participate, click
"Online Global Inventory of Nationality Laws" is a proposed collaborative project that would assemble an online collection of all the nationality laws of all 191 UN member states in native language and translated into English (and additional languages if possible). For more information about the project as well as how you might participate, click
Teaching:
Undergraduate courses taught include: "Introduction to International Relations," "International Organization," "Politics of International Migration," "Information Technology and World Politics"
Graduate courses taught include: "International Organization," "Information Technology, Globalization and Governance," "Global and Homeland Security," "International Relations Theory," "International Political Economy"