- Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies
- Chair of Sociology
Education
- PhD, SUNY Binghamton, 2001
- MA, SUNY Binghamton, 1997
- BA, Evergreen State College, 1992
Biography
My research focuses on race, immigration law, and the politics of citizenship.
My work has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Du Bois Review, CENTRO Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal and American Studies.
My current book project is on the 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act, examining this historic legislation against the backdrop of Cold War geo-politics and domestic civil rights mobilization.
Research Interests
My research focuses on race, immigration law, and the politics of citizenship.
Publications and Presentations
Baldoz is the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press), which won book awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association. He is coeditor of The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology and Global Production (Temple University Press).
My current book project is on the 1965 Hart-Cellar Immigration Act, examining this historic legislation against the backdrop of Cold War geo-politics and domestic civil rights mobilization. Broad in scope, this book explores the transformations wrought by this dramatic overhaul of US immigration enforcement focusing on the entanglement of U.S. foreign and domestic policy imperatives in the refashioning of U.S. borders. This project also highlights the political dilemmas occasioned by the establishment of new restrictive quotas curtailing immigration from Latin America.
Courses
Fall 2018
- SOCI 215. The Asian American Experience
- SOCI 250. Sociology of Popular Culture
Notes
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Rick Baldoz Gives Keynote Address
October 3, 2018Associate Professor of Sociology Rick Baldoz gave the keynote address at the Legally Liminal Asians Conference at Brown University on September 28, 2018.
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Rick Baldoz Authors Piece in the Washington Post
January 16, 2018Associate professor of sociology Rick Baldoz authored the article “How Republicans Set the Stage for Trump’s Corrosive Ideas on Immigration” which was published in the Washington Post.
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Rick Baldoz, Shelley Lee Coauthor Salon Article
January 5, 2016Rick Baldoz, associate professor of sociology, and Shelley Lee, associate professor of comparative American studies and history, published the article "Donald Trump fails history: How the right’s failure to understand Japanese-American internment drives anti-Muslim hatred" on Salon.
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Rick Baldoz, Shelley Lee Publish
December 2, 2015Rick Baldoz, associate professor of sociology, and Shelley Lee, associate professor of comparative American studies and history, published the article “Decades of Xenophobia Shape US Response to Syrian Refugees” on Truthout.
Baldoz also recently published the article “The 1965 Immigration Act: Its Legacy and Lessons” in the same publication.
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Rick Baldoz, Shelley Lee Deliver Keynote
October 9, 2015Rick Baldoz, associate professor of sociology, and Shelley Lee, associate professor of comparative American studies and history, delivered the joint keynote address “Pilipino American History: Between Empire and Diaspora” on October 6 at the University of San Francisco for Pilipino/a American History Month. The event was hosted by the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program and the University of San Francisco Kasamahan.
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Shelley Lee, Rick Baldoz, and Harrod Suarez Participate in Conference
April 30, 2014Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Shelley Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rick Baldoz, and Assistant Professor of English Harrod Suarez participated in the Association for Asian American Studies annual meeting held in San Francisco, April 16 to 19. This is the largest association for scholars of the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies.
Lee presented new research in a paper titled, “Koreagate: Race, Gender, and the Return of the Yellow Peril in 1970s America,” and participated in a state-of-the-field roundtable discussion on Asian American history. Baldoz participated in a pedagogy roundtable discussion titled, “Teaching Asian American Studies: Strategies, Trajectories, and Philosophies.” Suarez presented his research in a paper titled, “The Maternal Diaspora in Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son.”