Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza is founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law (RCL) Lab, a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, and the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center. She has spent her scholarly career working to understand why racial and economic disparities exist, how racism intersects with capitalism, and how our legal system upholds these inequities. She is the author of over 50 academic articles and six books. Her latest book, which was awarded the Robert E. Park Book Award of the Community and Urban Studies Section of ASA, is Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.

You can find most of her published works on ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1952-175X

In compliance with the University of California's open access policy, you can find pre-prints of most of Dr. Golash-Boza's work on the e-scholarship site: https://escholarship.org/search?q=author%3A%22Golash-Boza%22&type_of_work=article

If there is a published article you'd like to read but don't have access to, please contact Dr. Golash-Boza to request a pre-print.

Her Google Scholar page is here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SY4FRAgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao