Justin Gest

Justin Gest is Professor of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. He studies immigration and the politics of demographic change. He is the award-winning author of six books:

• Majority Minority (Oxford, 2022);
• Mass Appeal: Communicating Policy Ideas in Multiple Media(Oxford, 2020)
• Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change (Cambridge, 2018);
• The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2018);
• The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality (Oxford, 2016);
• Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West (Oxford, 2010).

He also co-edits the Oxford University Press book series, “Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship,” and has authored a variety of articles in peer-reviewed journals across the social sciences.

He is a columnist for Newsweek, and has provided reporting or commentary for ABC, BBC, CBC, CNN, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, NPR, The New York Times, Politico, Reuters, Vox, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

In 2014 and 2020, Professor Gest received Harvard University’s Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize and the George Mason University 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 co-founded the Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE).