Tanya Golash Boza

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Tanya Golash Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza is an American sociologist. She is the executive director of the University of California Washington Center.[1] She is also a professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.[2] Golash-Boza serves as the vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society.[3]

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Tanya Golash Boza

Education

Golash-Boza earned her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Certificate of Anthropology from L’Ecole d’Anthropologie in Paris in 1996, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005.[4]

Selected books

  • Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap. (2023), University of California Press. ISBN 9780520391178.[5]
  • Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach. (2015) New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0199920013.[6][7]
  • Deported: Immigrant policing, disposable labor, and global capitalism. (2015) New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1479843978.[8][9]
  • Immigration Nation: Raids, detentions, and deportations in post-9/11 America. (2011) Boulder, Colo: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 978-1594518386.[10]
  • Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States (1. publ ed.). (2012) New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415509305.
  • Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (2012), University Press of Florida. ISBN 978–0813044491

Recognition

Golash-Boza received Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010.[11] In 2013, she was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service.[12] In 2018, she was awarded UC Merced's Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award.[13] Tanya Golash-Boza's book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap, earned the Community and Urban Sociology Section's Outstanding Book in Community and Urban Sociology in 2024.[14]

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