Asad L. Asad

Asad L. Asad is Assistant Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His research agenda considers how institutional categories—in particular, citizenship and legal status—matter for multiple forms of inequality. He is the author of the award-winning book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press). His current research projects examine the effects of immigration enforcement on health, the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations to undo the hardships of the U.S. immigration system, and the role of the federal judiciary in immigration enforcement. Asad earned his BA in Political Science and Spanish Language and Culture from the University of Wisconsin, and his AM and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.