John Mollenkopf is a Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center where he teaches Political Science and Sociology, directs its Center for Urban Research, and chairs the public policy subfield in political science. He has authored or edited eighteen books, most recently Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration (Cornell University Press, 2016), co-edited with Manuel Pastor. His book Place Matters: A Metropolitics for the 21st Century (with Peter Dreier and Todd Swanstrom, University Press of Kansas), now in its third edition (2014) won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association.