Anthony Messina

Anthony Messina

Anthony M. Messina (B.A., Assumption College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984) Associate Professor.  He specializes on the politics of ethnicity, race, and immigration in Western Europe.  He is the author of The Logics and Politics of Post-World War II Migration to Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Race and Party Competition in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1989); the editor of West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century (Praeger, 2002); and the co-editor of The Migration Reader (Lynne Rienner, 2006); The Year of the Euro: The Social and Political Import of Europe's Common Currency (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), and Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood, 1992).  He has published in Parliamentary Affairs, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journal, The Review of Politics, West European Politics, World Politics, and other scholarly journals and anthologies.  In 2006 his co-authored article, “The Limits of a European Immigration Policy,” was recognized as the best article published in the Journal of Common Market Studies in 2005.

Advising specialties:

Graduate programs in political science

Research and teaching interests:

British politics, European Union, immigration policy

Contact Information

Email: Anthony.M.Messina.3@nd.edu
Office: 204 Hesburgh Center
Phone: (574) 631-3968

Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN  46556

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Political Science
Phone: (574) 631-6377