Steven J. Gold

Steven J. Gold is a professor and associate chair in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include international migration, ethnic economies, qualitative methods, and visual sociology. The past chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, Gold is the author, co-author or co-editor of seven books. Together with Rubén G. Rumbaut, he is the editor of The New Americans, a scholarly book series of over 70 volumes from LFB Publishers. Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in 2007.