Asad Asad
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
email: asadasad@stanford.edu
website: www.asadasad.org
About
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 uses the U.S. immigration system as a lens for studying how institutional categories—namely, citizenship and legal status—relate to social control and inequality. Asad is the author of the award-winning book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press). Current research projects examine the effects of immigration enforcement on health, the federal judiciary’s role in immigration enforcement, and the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations to transform the U.S. immigration system. Asad earned his B.A. in Political Science and Spanish Language and Culture from the University of Wisconsin, and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University.
