Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2023
Bio
Jorge Daniel Vásquez is a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of International Service at American University. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2023). His research integrates global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, sociology of race and ethnicity, and decolonial studies. He has been a Fulbright fellow, and his work has been published in Gender & Society, Critical Sociology, Du Bois Review, Journal of Historical Sociology, the International Education Journal and the Brazilian journal Sociologias.
His work has received the ASA Ida B. Wells-Troy Duster Award, the ASA Charles Tilly Best Article Award-Honorable Mention, the 2023 Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award, the 2023 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Global and Transnational Sociology section and an Honorable mention from the ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought section. His book Critique of Adultcentric Society received the Tobar Guarderas Award for the best Social Sciences book published in Ecuador in 2015. He is the author of 'Transforming Ethnicity: Youth and Migration in Southern Ecuadorian Andes' (2023) and is currently working on the book manuscript 'The Sociology of the Global Color Line. '
