Faculty

Steven J. Gold is professor associate chair and graduate program director in the department sociology at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He has published articles on qualitative research methods, visual sociology, immigration, ethnic economies and ethnic community development in numerous journals and edited volumes. In addition, he has edited special issues of American Behavioral Scientist and Qualitative Sociology. The past president of the International Visual Sociology Association, and past chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, he is co-editor of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000) (with Rubén G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner); and the author of four books: Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study (Sage 1992); From the Worker’s State to the Golden State (Allyn and Bacon 1995); and Ethnic Economies with Ivan Light (Academic Press, 2000). His most recent book, The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington 2002) won the American Sociological Association’s Thomas and Znaniecki Award given by the International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. Along with Ruben Rubén G. Rumbaut, he is editor of “The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society” book series from LFB Scholarly Publishing. Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in October 2007. He is currently involved in a study of refugees in Lansing, Michigan; and is writing a book on conflicts between immigrant entrepreneurs and their customers.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF - opens in a new window)*

Arab Americans in Michigan Photo Essay

Links to Recent Publications:
“Gender, Class, and Network: Social Structure and Migration Patterns among Transnational Israelis” Global Networks 1, 1 (2001): 57–78. *

“From Jim Crow to Racial Hegemony: Evolving Explanations of Racial Hierarchy” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, 2004, pp. 1-18. *

“Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Customers Throughout the 20th Century,” pp. 315-340 in Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, editors, Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. *

“Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities” American Behavioral Scientist 47 (12) 2004, pp. 1551-1572. *

“The Migrant Economy” Axess Magazine Issue 4, 2005, http://www.axess.se/english/2005/04/theme_gold.php (In Swedish in Axess 4, Maj, 2005, pp. 14-17).

Migrant Networks: A Summary and Critique of Relational Approaches to International Migration Ch 12, pp. 257-285 in Mary Romero and Eric Margolis (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, Malden MA, Blackwell, 2005. *

"'Trabajando Duro Todos Los Días’ Learning from the Life Experiences of Mexican-Origin Migrant Families,” (with José Rubén Parra-Cardona, Laurie A. Bulock, David R. Imig and Francisco A. Villarruel Family Relations, 55 (July 2006): pp. 361-375. *

The Second Generation and Self-Employment (with Ivan Light and M. Francis Johnston). Migration Information Source, (October 1, 2006).

462 Berkey Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 353-6352
gold@msu.edu

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