Van C. Tran

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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Columbia University
Van C. Tran is a sociologist whose primary research focuses on the incorporation of post-1965 immigrants and their children as well as its implications for the future of ethnic and racial inequality in the United States. His other interests include neighborhoods, urban inequality, and population health, with a focus on the Hispanic/Latino population and New York City neighborhoods. Some of his recent work also adopts a comparative approach to the study of migration in the United States, in Europe, and in China. Tran’s research has been published in Social Forces, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, City and Community, Population Health Management, among other interdisciplinary journals. Tran is a recipient of many fellowships and scholarly awards, including the Soros Fellowships for New Americans. His research has been funded by Stanford Center for Poverty and Inequality, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation’s Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), among others. His work has also been recognized with three awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on International Migration, Latino/a Sociology and Community and Urban Sociology.

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