Rick Baldoz is a scholar of immigration, US empire, and Asian American Studies with a particular focus on the convergence of foreign and domestic policy imperatives in demarcating, delimiting, and administering the borders of the national community. More broadly, my work grapples with the politics of citizenship and national belonging and the fashioning of boundary processes (national, racial, ideological) that determine membership in American society. He teaches courses on immigration and citizenship regimes, US popular culture, and Asian American Studies. His book, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America 1898-1946 (NYU Press) won awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Library Association. Professor Baldoz he has published articles on comparative colonialism, Cold War radicalism, US imperial statecraft, and racial ideology in Hawaii. He is working on two projects: Sovereignty's Devil: Immigration, Geopolitics, and the Borders of US Empire about the entanglement of US immigration policy and national security imperatives from the Cold War to the present. The other is “Un-American Activities”: HUAC, “Subversives,” and the Paradoxes of American Freedom.
