Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, May 27, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Guest Speaker Filiz Garip, “Predictability of Human Mobility across Borders.”
Garip is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University where she has been since 2021. Prior appointments include Cornell University, where she served as Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, and Harvard University, where she was appointed to full professor in 2016.
She holds a PhD in Sociology and an MSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). Garip’s research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Her work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review, Sociological Methods and Research. Her book, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration (Princeton University Press, 2017), won three awards: the Otis Dudley Duncan Award of ASA’s Population Section, the best book award of APSA’s Migration and Citizenship Section (2017) and the Mirra Komarovsky award from the Eastern Sociological Society. Garip also received the 2019 Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science (Istanbul, Turkey).