Jorge Daniel Vásquez
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Research Interests
- Global and Transnational Sociology
- Sociological Theory
- Comparative-Historical Methods
- Du Boisian Sociology
- Race and Ethnicity
- Latin America
Jorge Daniel Vásquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina. His research integrates global and transnational sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory, and the sociology of race and ethnicity. His work examines the intersections of race, indigeneity, gender, politics, and culture, as well as the processes of knowledge production and anti-racist trans-American networks, utilizing qualitative and archival research methods.
Before joining the University of Regina, Dr. Vásquez was the inaugural Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Service at American University, where he began developing his book manuscript "The Sociology of the Global Color Line." This research specifically focuses on Black intellectuals W.E.B. Du Bois and Irene Diggs’s trans-American networks, field notes, letters, research reports, unpublished manuscripts, and translations related to race and colonialism in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1930 and 1974, to develop a historicized theory engaged with anti-colonial politics and anti-racist struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Representative Publications
2025 Vásquez, JD “Du Bois after Du Bois, or Historical Sociology after Black Reconstruction” In Emigh, Rebecca Jean and McCourt, David M. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
2025 Vásquez, JD “Beyond the Color of Reason. For an Anticolonial Sociology of Race and Adultcentrism” In Handbook on Anticolonial, Decolonial, and Postcolonial Sociologies (Eds. Jyoti Puri and Vrushali Patil), Northampton, MA: Elgar Publishing, forthcoming
2025 Vásquez, JD “Reconsidering the Racial Other. Nation-building, Citizenship, and Interracial Alliances in Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Moraña, M. and Valerio, M. (Eds.) Mapping Diversity in Latin America. Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present (176-198). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.27195534.10
2025 Rodríguez-Cruz, Marta and Jorge Daniel Vásquez (Eds.) Migrant Children and Youth in the Americas. Analysis and Narratives of a Growing Mobility. (in Spanish). Mexico DF: UNAM-Boston
2024 Vásquez, JD “W.E.B. Du Bois and Irene Diggs. Gender, Erasures, and Knowledge Production in the Sociology of the Global Color Line.” Gender & Society 38 (3), 317-350
https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241252609
- 2025 ASA Sex and Gender Distinguished Paper Award-Honorable Mention, ASA Sex and Gender Section
- 2024 Ida B. Wells-Troy Duster Award, ASA Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section.
2024 Vásquez, JD. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Global Sociology and the Anti-racist Struggle for Democracy in Cuba (1931-1941).” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 21(1), 116-142. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X23000103
- 2024 Charles Tilly Best Article Award – Honorable Mention, ASA Comparative-Historical Sociology Section
- 2023 Best Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Global and Transnational Sociology Section
- 2023 Best Graduate Student Paper Award – Honorable Mention, ASA History of Sociology and Social Thought Section
2023 Vásquez, JD (2023) Transforming Ethnicity. Youth and Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave [link]
- Reviewed in Latin American Research Review 59(4) [link]
2022 Vásquez, JD. “The Political Sociology of 21st-Century Populism in Latin America: A Critique of the Ecuadorian Case.” Critical Sociology 48 (2), 283-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205211032256
- 2023 Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award, Editorial Board of Critical Sociology
2021 Vásquez, JD. “Stuart Hall: Marx, Gramsci and the Crisis Issue” Sociologias 23 (56), 276-301 (in Spanish with English abstract). https://doi.org/10.1590/15174522-100561
2021 Vásquez, JD. “Bordering the Crisis. Race, Migration, and Political Strategies in Anti-Populist Ecuador.” In Moraña, M. (ed). Liquid Borders. Migration as Resistance (pp. 199-211) New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003142911