Steven J. Gold

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Steven J. Gold" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Find sources: "Steven J. Gold" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Steven James Gold (born 1955) 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 (1987–1990) and Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration (2003–2004), he is a professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Sociology^[1]

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.

• Refugee Communities: A Comparative Field Study (Sage 1992).
• From The Workers’ State to The Golden State (Allyn and Bacon 1995).
• Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Co-edited with Rubén G. Rumbaut and Nancy Foner, Russell Sage Foundation, 2000).
• Ethnic Economies (with Ivan Light Academic Press, 2000).
• The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002).
• The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict (Rowman and Littlefield 2010).
• International Handbook of Migration Studies (Co-edited with Stephanie Nawyn, Routledge 2013).

^[2]

• Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology, Michigan Sociology Association, East Lansing, October 2007
• The Israeli Diaspora wins the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section for the best book on international migration, August 2003^[3][4]

• Personal Web site [1]
• New Americans Books Series: [2]