Tanya Golash-Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza is an American sociologist whose research focuses on race, immigration, and social inequality, particularly deportation, racial capitalism, and urban inequality. She is the executive director of the University of California Washington Center. She is also a professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced. She served as vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Education

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

Selected books

Golash-Boza is the author of several books on race, immigration, and social inequality.

• Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap (2023), University of California Press. ISBN 9780520391178.
• Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (2015), New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199920013.
• Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism (2015), New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1479843978.
• Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post-9/11 America (2011), Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 978-1594518386.
• Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States (2012), New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415509305.
• Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (2012), University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813044491.

Research and contributions

Golash-Boza's research examines the intersections of race, immigration, and inequality, with a focus on deportation systems, racial capitalism, and urban inequality. Her work has analyzed immigration enforcement in the United States and its connections to global economic systems, as well as the historical roots of racial wealth disparities in U.S. cities.

Honors and awards

Golash-Boza has received several awards for her research, teaching, and public scholarship. She received the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association in 2010. In 2013, she was awarded the University of California, Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service. In 2018, she received UC Merced's Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award. Her book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap received the 2024 Outstanding Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.