Executive Director of UC Washington Center
Tanya Golash-Boza is an American sociologist. She is the executive director of the University of California Washington Center. She is also a professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced. Golash-Boza serves as the vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
Education.
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.
Recognition.
Golash-Boza received Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010. In 2013, she was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service. In 2018, she was awarded UC Merced’s Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award. 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. 
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