Tomas Jimenez

Professor Tomas Jimenez holds a B.S. in sociology from Santa Clara University and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Harvard University. Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of California, San Diego (2005-08). His research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. He has written several academic articles on these topics, as well as a book: Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity (University of California Press, 2010). Professor Jimenez has also been an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. Before that, he was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15), where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veterans affairs, housing, and election reform. His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center, and he has written opinion-editorials on the topic of immigrant assimilation in several major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, and the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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