Tomás Jiménez is the Joan B. Ford Professor in the Department of Sociology, the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and the founding director of Stanford’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies. His research and writing focus on immigration, policy, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. He also researches immigration policy with Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab, directing the Lab’s Qualitative Initiative to integrate qualitative and quantitative approaches in research to have policy impact.
As a SIL Design Fellow, his research project focused on the successful social, political, and economic integration of the 25% of the US population that is either foreign-born or the children of immigrants.