Philip Kretsedemas

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 8
Telephone: 617-287-6273
Email: philip.kretsedemas@umb.edu

Research

Philip Kretsedemas received his Sociology Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1997. Primary areas of specialization include immigration and critical race studies. Other areas of interest include globalization and social change, social welfare policy, poststructuralist theory and pragmatist theory.

Representative Publications

Forthcoming 2009. “Redefining ‘Race’ in North America.” Current Sociology, Volume 57, No. 1.

2008. Co-edited with David Brotherton. Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction
to Immigration Enforcement Today. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

2005. “Reconsidering Immigrant Welfare Restrictions: A Critical Review of Post Keynesian Welfare Policy." Stanford Law and Policy Review. Pp. 463-480. Vol.16. No.2.

2004. Co-edited with Ana Aparicio. Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the Poverty of
Policy. Westport, Conn & London: Greenwood-Praeger.