Summary
James Witte is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR). Witte, who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991, has been a professor at Clemson University and Northwestern University.
His interests include: Use of the world wide web to collect survey data, comparison of online and off line societies, immigration, Pakistan
Current research: Witte’s ongoing research includes the analysis of Twitter data on immigration and the Digital Archive Project in partnership with the American Sociological Association.
Publications: Labor Force Integration and Marital Choice, the Internet and Social Inequality and The Normal Bar. The Normal Bar, co-authored with Chrisanna Northrup and Pepper Schwartz, was released in 2013 and made the New York Times bestseller list
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About
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center and a lecturer in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Witte has written numerous articles that have appeared in journals such as The European Sociological Review, Population and Development Review, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal, and Sociological Methods and Research.
He has also published three books, Labor Force Integration and Marital Choice, the Internet and Social Inequality and The Normal Bar. The Normal Bar, co-authored with Chrisanna Northrup and Pepper Schwartz, was released in 2013 and made the New York Times bestseller list. Dr. Witte came to Mason in the fall of 2009.
Major projects have included the privately funded Institute for Immigration Research, the National Science Foundation funded Digital Archive Project, and the University Partnership with the University of Karachi funded by the U.S. State Department, and attitudes of and toward immigrants in seven U.S. metro areas.
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Contact
Email: GMU
Zipcode: 22030
Locations
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, 1D7
Fairfax, VA 22030
Web Links
Videos
Futures Talks with Prof. Dr. James Witt
April 18, 2021 (01:12:00)
By: Imagine Institute
Futures Talks with Prof. Dr. James Witte, Director of the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College Of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University, USA. Dr. Witte has written numerous articles that have appeared in journals such as The European Sociological Review, Population and Development Review and Sociological Methods and Research.
IIR Colloquium Series: U.S.-China Relations: How Changes to Trade and Immigration Policy Affect Both Countries
May 14, 2020 (01:25:00)
By: GMU-TV
Institute for Immigration Research Colloquium Series: “U.S.-China Relations: How Changes to Trade and Immigration Policy Affect Both Countries” with panelists: Dan Griswold, Megan Essaheb, Sean Lin and presented by James Witte. September 16th 2019.
Current Research
Witte’s ongoing research includes the analysis of Twitter data on immigration and the Digital Archive Project in partnership with the American Sociological Association. The latter is funded by the National Science Foundation and entails the digitization of twenty years of manuscripts and reviews from the American Sociological Review and the organization of document metadata into a research archive for the analysis of the production of sociological knowledge.
As part of his work with the IIR, Dr. Witte designed and implemented a survey of immigrant professionals in seven American cities. Results from this study were published in a widely disseminated report, Steps to Success: Integrating Immigrant Professionals in the United States, co-authored with Amanda Bergson-Shilcock from the National Skills Coalition. Data from this survey of immigrant professionals formed the basis for a federally funded project from the Corporation for National and Community Service, with Drs. Best, Dale and Davis as co-investigators.
The IIR recently launched a new initiative, “Immigrants, Athletes, and Inclusion.” As an initial step in this initiative Dr. Witte has downloaded and is analyzing over 22 million NFT transactions from NBA Top Shot to consider how this market differentially values native-born and foreign-born professional basketball players.
