Tanya Golash-Boza is an American sociologist. She is the executive director of the University of California Washington Center.^[1] She is also a professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.^[2] Golash-Boza serves as the vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society.^[3]

Golash-Boza earned her B.A. in philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Certificate of Anthropology from L’Ecole d’Anthropologie in Paris in 1996, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005.^[4]

• Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap. (2023), University of California Press. ISBN 9780520391178.^[5]
• Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach. (2015) New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0199920013.^[6][7]
• Deported: Immigrant policing, disposable labor, and global capitalism. (2015) New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-1479843978.^[8][9]
• Immigration Nation: Raids, detentions, and deportations in post-9/11 America. (2011) Boulder, Colo: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 978-1594518386.^[10]
• Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States (1. publ ed.). (2012) New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415509305.
• Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (2012), University Press of Florida. ISBN 978–0813044491

Golash-Boza received Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010.^[11] In 2013, she was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service.^[12] In 2018, she was awarded UC Merced’s Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award.^[13] Tanya Golash-Boza’s book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, earned the Community and Urban Sociology Section’s Outstanding Book in Community and Urban Sociology in 2024. ^[14]