Sociology of Immigration : Crossing Borders, Creating New Lives

Daniel Herda is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He received his Doctoral degree in 2013 from the University of California – Davis. At Merrimack, he regularly teaches courses on the Sociological Imagination, Research Methods, Race and Ethnicity, and the Sociology of Immigration. Immigration is a global course offered each spring by his department that culminates in a study-abroad experience in Germany. He and his students use the city of Berlin as their laboratory for understanding all aspects human migration. In addition, Dan is an award-winning survey researcher who analyzes immigration, race relations, crime, and public opinion. His work on population innumeracy reveals just how poorly informed Americans and Europeans are about various groups in their societies. Dan contributed chapters on Immigration to two of our Sociology in Action texts in development: Social Problems and Race and Ethnicity. He also created some of the SAGE Stats data activities for the Social Problems text.