pireland@iit.edu

Trained in comparative politics, modern languages, and public health, Patrick Ireland arrived at Illinois Tech in Fall 2007 from the American University of Beirut. He has also taught at the University of Denver and Georgia Tech, as well as for shorter stints in Germany and Ghana and as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Rabat, Morocco. His teaching repertoire includes courses on comparative politics (Africa and Europe), ethnic relations, global health, and global migration. Employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, Ireland has written extensively on urban-level migrant integration in developed and developing countries, female migrant domestic workers, and cultural policy and the cultural and creative economy. His work has been based on extensive field work undertaken in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America and has been supported by the American Institute of Indian Studies, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, American Political Science Association, Chateaubriand Fellowship Program, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, European Commission, Fulbright-Hays Program (India), Fulbright Senior Scholar Program (Morocco), German Marshall Fund of the United States, Krupp Foundation, Gouvernement du Québec, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (South Africa).

Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Lesotho, Migration, Methods, LGBTQIA+, Institutions, Ethnicity