Tanya Golash Boza

She is the executive director of the University of California Washington Center.

[2] Golash-Boza serves as the vice president of the Eastern Sociological Society.

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.

[4] Golash-Boza received Distinguished Early Career Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Studies Section of the American Sociological Association in 2010.

[13] 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.