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is a professor of policy and government at ÐÔÊӽ紫ý’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He studies immigration and the politics of demographic change. :

• Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the WestÌý(Oxford University Press/Hurst 2010)
• The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and InequalityÌý(Oxford University Press 2016)
• The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press 2018)
• Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic ChangeÌý(Cambridge University Press 2018)
• a textbook, Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media (Oxford University Press 2020)
• Majority Minority (Oxford University Press 2022)

He also coedits the Oxford University Press book series, Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship.ÌýHe has authored in journals including Comparative Political Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the International Migration Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has edited special issues of Citizenship Studies and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

for ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, the New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Vox, and the Washington Post.

In 2014 and 2020, Gest received Harvard University’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the ÐÔÊӽ紫ý Teaching Excellence Award, respectively each university’s highest award for faculty teaching. In 2013, he received the 2013 Star Family Prize for Student Advising, Harvard’s highest award for student advising. In 2007, he cofounded the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Areas of Research:

• Comparative Politics
• Diversity
• Europe
• Immigration Policy
• International Migration
• Islam
• Middle East
• Minority Politics
• Muslim Politics
• Qualitative Methods
• Race and Ethnicity
• United States