Ron Schmidt, Professor

Department of Political Science

California State University, Long Beach

Fulbright-Enders Research Chair, Center for International Studies, Universitè de Montrèal, Quebec, Canada.

Professor Schmidt was selected to hold this Chair during the Fall 2005 semester to study immigrant settlement policy in Canada, with the long-term aim of comparing immigrant settlement in Canada and the United States. While holding the Fulbright-Enders Chair, he taught a graduate course in the Department of Political Science at the Universitè de Montrèal on the impact of recent immigration on ethno-racial politics in the United States. (Click here to see the course syllabus.)

Professor Schmidt also gave a number of public lectures and presentations while in Canada, including the following:

Canada Fulbright Orientation Program, Ottawa, September 27, 2005. Panel presentation: ‘Immigrant Identity Politics in the “Post-9/11” Era: Challenges to Immigrant Settlement Policy in North America.’

The Center for Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement, the University of Toronto, November 4, 2005. Title: “Immigrant Incorporation in the U.S. and Canada: A Preliminary Comparison.” (Click here to see a power-point file outline.)

The McGill University Institute for the Study of Canada, November 9, 2005. The Annual Enders Lecture on “Immigrant Settlement in Canada and the United States: A Preliminary Comparison.”

The Universitè de Montrèal, November 30, 2005. Title: “Tocqueville’s Contributions to Understanding the Political Consequences of American Conformism,” one of the “Cycle of Conferences on ‘Tocqueville: Questions on American Society’,” organized to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Sociology. (Click here to see a power-point file outline.)

The Universitè de Montrèal, December 6, 2005. Title: “Toward Sustainable Cultural Pluralism: The Role of International Migration,” for the 2005-2006 Scientific Seminar of the Canada Research Chair on International Migration Law’s “The Complex Dynamics of International Migration Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Conceptualization of the Migration Phenomenon.” (Click here to link to a video of the presentation.)

In March, 2006, Professor Schmidt returned to Montrèal to present a paper at the Annual Conference of the Center for International Studies and the Chair in American Political and Economic Studies at the Universitè de Montrèal. The conference theme was “Conservative Political Dominance in the U.S. – Short-term or Long-term?” The paper’s title: “Immigration and the Future of Political Conservatism in the United States.” (Click here to link to a video of the presentation.)