In memoriam: Aristide Zolberg (1931-2013)

Abstract

Aristide (‘Ary’) R. Zolberg (1931–2013), a distinguished political scientist and one of the world’s pre-eminent scholars of comparative politics, the history of international migration, nationalism, and ethnicity, and immigration policy in North America and Western Europe passed away on 12 April 2013 at the age of 81. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1961, Ary initially taught at the University of Wisconsin, then at the University of Chicago, before moving to the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1983, where he was on the faculty for nearly thirty years as the University-in-Exile Chair and Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science and Historical Studies. After years of research in African studies, which resulted in publications such as One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast (Princeton University Press, 1961; second edition, 1967), and Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa...