David Cook-Martín is a professor of sociology at New York University Abu Dhabi’s Social Research and Public Policy program. His book Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the Thomas and Znaniecki Prize of the American Sociological Association. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racism Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2014), coauthored with David FitzGerald, won the ASA’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication award in 2017.