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Sofya Aptekar, an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies.
Episode 3144 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature an interview with Sofya Aptekar where she will talk about her book Green Card Soldier and her review of the book Building Little Saigon. Leading the interview will be Andy Pham, a good friend of this podcast.Sofya Aptekar is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat (MIT Press) and The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States (Rutgers University Press), and co-author of Lend and Rule: Fighting The Shadow Financialization of Public Universities. Sofya researches and writes about the immigration system, US military and empire, urban diversity, and workforce inequities. She is a proud union member and worker organizer.
At CUNY SLU, Sofya teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in urban studies, policy, and research methods. Prior to her current position, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty in Critical Ethnic and Community Studies program at UMass Boston. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Sofya has taught undergraduate courses at Rutgers University, Queens College, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College.
The two books described in this episode of the podcast have been added to the Vietnam Veteran News Recommended Reading List. You are invited to use the convenient likes below to order your copy of the books while taking advantage of the super discounts offered on the book purchases.
Listen to Episode 3144 and discover more about Sofya Aptekar and her book Green Card Soldier and more.