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Steven Gold

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Steven Gold

Professor Emeritus

Berkey Hall, 462

(517) 353-6352

gold@msu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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Environment Migration and Movements

Biography

Steven J. Gold is professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. Educated at Brandeis University, University of California Santa Cruz, and University of California Berkeley, his scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of nine books including The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002) which

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Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1985

M.A. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1980

B.A. in Sociology and Psychology with highest honors and college honors, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1977

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Publications

Wandering Jews: Global Jewish Migration. Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, Annual Review, Volume 18, West Lafayette Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2020.

The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, Second Edition (with Stephanie Nawyn) Routledge, 2019

The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict, Lanham, MD:  Roman and Littlefield, 2010, Paperback edition, 2012

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