MICRO-BIO

• Patrick R. Ireland is Professor of Political Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Trained in comparative politics, modern languages, and public health, he has also taught at the American University of Beirut, Ge...More

  Patrick R. Ireland is Professor of Political Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Trained in comparative politics, modern languages, and public health, he has also taught at the American University of Beirut, Georgia Tech, and the University of Denver, as well as for shorter stints in Germany, Ghana, and Morocco. He has written extensively on urban-level migrant integration in Europe and North America; ethnicity and migration in Africa; cultural policy; and female migrant domestic workers. His publications include several sole-authored books--The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity (Harvard, 1994), Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State (Pittsburgh, 2004), Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)--and many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

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EXPERIENCE

• Illinois Institute of Technology

  • Professor of Political Science
  • Social Sciences
  • Present

EDUCATION

• University of Texas

  • MPH
  • August 2003 to August 2005

• Harvard University

  • PhD
  • June 1985 to June 1990

• Harvard University

  • MA
  • August 1983 to June 1985

• University of Notre Dame

  • BA
  • August 1979 to May 1983

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