Tomás R. Jiménez

Tomás Jiménez's research and writing focus on immigration, policy, assimilation, refugee resettlement, and ethnic and racial identity. He has published three books on these topics: Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity (2010); The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Change American Life (2017); and States of Belonging: Immigration Policy, Attitudes, and Inclusion (co-authored, 2021). Professor Jiménez has also published his research in Science, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Problems, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science Quarterly, DuBois Review, Social Currents, Qualitative Sociology, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

Jiménez has taught at the University of California, San Diego. He was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2017-19). He has also been an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation and a Sage Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS). He was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in Congressman Michael Honda's office, where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veterans’ affairs, housing, and election reform. His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center and the Migration Policy Institute. He has written editorials on immigration for several major news outlets, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Hill, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has also offered commentary for media outlets, including NBC News, National Public Radio, and Univision.

Jiménez's involvement with the formation of a race institute at Stanford dates back to 2020, when he was appointed to serve on the Framework Task Force to Recommend New Infrastructure for the Study of Race and the Impact of Race on Society. Jiménez and Brian Lowery later co-chaired the Race Institute Implementation Committee, and were subsequently named the institute’s founding faculty co-directors.

Professor Jiménez’s full biography is available on the Sociology Department website.