Steven J. Gold


Steven James Gold is a sociologist involved in research on ethnic economies, international migration, the development of ethnic communities, visual sociology, and qualitative methods. Having served as President of the International Visual Sociology Association and Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration, he is a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Sociology

Early life

Gold grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Brandeis University and University of California, Santa Cruz as an undergraduate, graduating with a BA in both sociology and psychology. He received his master's and doctoral degrees in sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a sociology professor at Whittier College 1985-1994 and Michigan State University 1994–present.

Books

Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study.From The Workers’ State to The Golden State.Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives.Ethnic Economies.The Israeli Diaspora.The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict.International Handbook of Migration Studies.

Awards

Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology, Michigan Sociology Association, East Lansing, October 2007