Gallya Lahav is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at New York University. She holds graduate degrees in political science from the London School of Economics and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She was previously on the faculty of Wellesley College and Wesleyan University, and a research affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She has been the recipient of the Mellon/SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award in International Migration and the German-American Academic Council’s (GAAC) two-year summer fellowship on Citizenship and Immigration (Berlin and New York). Lahav teaches and writes on international migration and European integration, both within a comparative and international relations framework. In addition to her interests on the interactive effects of globalization, regional integration, and immigration, other areas of teaching and research include comparative politics, comparative political behaviour, public and elite opinion, political psychology, international public policy, human rights, race and ethnicity, the politics of Europe, the European Union, and the Middle East. Her policy-relevant experience in the field has spanned from the European Parliament to the United Nations, where she has served as a consultant to the Population Division.

Lahav’s articles have appeared in several books and journals, including Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Governance, the American Journal of Political Research, Framing Terrorism (Pippa Norris, et al., eds.), and Immigration Research for a New Century (Russell Sage). Her book, Immigration and Politics in the New Europe: Reinventing Borders gauges 10 years of public opinion and elite attitudes towards immigration in a Europe of changing boundaries (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Lahav is also co-editor of The Migration Reader (Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming), and a special issue on immigration politics for the journal, West European Politics (2006, forthcoming). She has been the recipient of the SSRC, Mellon, GAAC, NSF, and Drescher awards, and has recently received a MacArthur Fellowship grant for her current project on Migration, Security and Civil Liberties. This project examines the role of non-state actors in regulating migration across the liberal democracies of Europe and the United States in a post-9/11 world, and it considers the implications for civil liberties.