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 Critical Sociology, Du Bois Review, Journal of Historical Sociology, the International Education Journal and the Brazilian journal Sociologias.
His work has received the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award by the Global and Transnational Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. 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: W.E.B. Du Bois, Irene Diggs, and the Critique of Race in the Americas.'
