Rate My Professor Lauren Duquette-Rury

Lauren Duquette-Rury is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University, contributing to the Social Science discipline. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in International Studies with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before academia, she served as an economic analyst for the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Nathan Associates, an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. She joined Wayne State in 2018 after serving as Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2013 to 2018 and as a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow.

Employing qualitative and quantitative methods, Duquette-Rury investigates the impacts of international migration on democracy, development, citizenship, and state-society relations in migrant-sending and receiving countries. Her acclaimed first book, Exit and Voice: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics in Mexico (University of California Press, 2019), explores how organized migrants in destination countries engage in social welfare provision back home and its effects on local democracy. The book garnered the 2020 International Studies Association Distinguished Book Award for the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section, the 2021 American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section's Best Scholarly Book Award, and the American Political Science Association Migration and Citizenship Section's Outstanding Book Award. Her peer-reviewed articles appear in top journals including the American Sociological Review, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Science & Medicine, RSF: Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Latin American Research Review. Currently, she is authoring Naturalizing Under Threat: Citizenship in the Age of Immigration Enforcement, utilizing historical data, panel data, and interviews. Duquette-Rury has earned the 2020-2021 Wayne State University Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award for Academic Excellence—the first for a sociologist there—the 2022-2023 Career Development Chair Award, the 2023 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, a 2023 Humanities Center Fellowship, and the 2023-2024 Marilyn Williamson Endowed Chair Fellowship. Her work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation and Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, National Academies, Tinker Foundation, and various UCLA programs.