Tanya Golash Boza

Tanya Golash Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza is an American sociologist. 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. Golash-Boza serves as the 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 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.

Selected books

• 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 Univ. 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 978-1863518386.
• 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. In 2013, she was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service. In 2018, she was awarded UC Merced’s Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award. 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.