Rick Baldoz

Rick Baldoz is a scholar of immigration, US empire, and Asian American Studies with a particular focus on the convergence of foreign and domestic policy imperatives in demarcating, delimiting, and administering the borders of the national community. More broadly, my work grapples with the politics of citizenship and national belonging and the fashioning of boundary processes (national, racial, ideological) that determine membership in American society. He teaches courses on immigration and citizenship regimes, US popular culture, and Asian American Studies. His book, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) won awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association.