Gallya Lahav is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, SUNY. Professor Lahav was recipient of the MacArthur Foundation award for this project's early development. She is the author of Immigration and Politics in the New Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and co-editor of several expert compendia on migration. Her work has also appeared in numerous books, handbooks, and journals including Comparative Political Studies, the American Journal of Political Research, Political Behavior,  and International Migration Review.