CV - Jacob Richard Thomas
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Jacob Richard Thomas
Assistant Professor
Szociológia Tanszék
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Qualifications, scientific degrees
Higher education qualifications
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2013 - 2020
University of California-Los Angeles, Sociology (PhD/DLA képzés) -
2011 - 2012
University of Chicago, Masters of Arts Program in Social Sciences (MSc/MA) -
1998 - 2002
UC Berkeley, Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major (BSc/BA)
Career
Workplaces
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2024 -
Corvinus University of Budapest, Conduct and Publish Research and Teach, Assistant Professor -
2021 - 2024
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Conduct and Publish Research and Teach, Research Assistant Professor -
2020 - 2021
Princeton University, Conduct and Publish Research, Postdoctoral Research Associate
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2025 -
Founder of Institute of Social and Political Sciences
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2023, General Research Fund Grant ($78,600) for the study “Who Realizes Their Online Intentions To Emigrate? What Distinguishes Emigrants from Potential Emigrants in the Context of Rapid and Sudden Social Change.”
Hong Kong University Grant Committee -
2023, Direct Grant for the study “Does What We Can See Matter for American Opinion About Gun Restrictions? Experimental Impact of Images of a Dead Child Gunfire Victim and a ‘Good Guy With a Gun’” ($6,500)
Chinese University of Hong Kong -
2022, Direct Grant for “Who Realizes Their Online Intentions To Emigrate? What Distinguishes Emigrants from Potential Emigrants in the Context of Rapid and Sudden Social Change”
Chinese University of Hong Kong -
2020, Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar Award , Honorable Mention
American Sociological Association
Language skills
Language
Speaking
Writing
Reading
Media appearance
English
Native
Native
Native
Yes
Spanish
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Chinese
Advanced
Basic
Intermediate
Portuguese
Basic
Intermediate
Intermediate
French
Basic
Basic
Intermediate
Russian
Basic
Basic
Basic
Language skills
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Language: EnglishSpeaking: NativeWriting: NativeReading: NativeMedia appearance: Yes
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Language: SpanishSpeaking: AdvancedWriting: AdvancedReading: AdvancedMedia appearance:
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Language: ChineseSpeaking: AdvancedWriting: BasicReading: IntermediateMedia appearance:
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Language: PortugueseSpeaking: BasicWriting: IntermediateReading: IntermediateMedia appearance:
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Language: FrenchSpeaking: BasicWriting: BasicReading: IntermediateMedia appearance:
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Language: RussianSpeaking: BasicWriting: BasicReading: BasicMedia appearance:
Research, professional activity
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, Introduction to Sociology, Law and Society, Global Change and Inequality
sociology
migration, inequality/stratification, law, political sociology, cultural sociology, economic sociology
migration, inequality/stratification, law, US-China relations, gender, ethnicity and race
Major research projects
Advanced Qualitative Research Methods, Introduction to Sociology, Law and Society, Global Change and Inequality
sociology
migration, inequality/stratification, law, political sociology, cultural sociology, economic sociology
migration, inequality/stratification, law, US-China relations, gender, ethnicity and race
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2021 - 2024, Why Do Only A Minority of Those Want To Emigrate Do So? Advancing and Confirming a Push-Retain-Pull-Repel Model For International Migration
Form of participation: leader of the research team
Moneylender: Research Grants Council
Further info about research: You can learn more about Jacob Richard Thomas at his personal website: jacobrthomas.me you can find out his recent ongoing Hong Kong Emigration Project at hkemigrationproject.space (academic site) hkep-net (recruitment site)
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2013 - 2024, member, member
American Sociological Association, international -
2020 - 2024, Member,
American Political Science Association, international -
2014 - 2024, Member, member
Population Association of America, international -
2018 - 2024, member, member
International Sociological Association, international
Publications
- Thomas, Jacob Richard. 2025. \"Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants.\" Symbolic Interaction
- Thomas, Jacob Richard. 2025. “The Gendered Ways Families Reduce International Migration and Mobility.” International Migration Review.
- Thomas, Jacob. 2023. “Bureaucratic and Organizational Amenability to Racial Diversification: How Points Systems Replaced White-Only Immigration Policies.” International Journal of Sociology 53(2): 103-131.
- Thomas, Jacob. 2021. “From local control to remote control: an excavation of international mobility constraints.” Theory and Society 50(1): 33-64.
- Thomas, Jacob. 2020. “When Political Freedom Does Not Offer Travel Freedom: The Varying Determinants of Visa‐Free Travel Opportunities.” International Migration 58(2): 80-97.
- Thomas, Jacob Richard, Lemeng Liang, Shigeto Sonoda, and Yu Xie. \\
- Thomas, Jacob. 2019. “Reflecting upon the Impact of the United States' 2016 Election and Travel Ban: Why Might Fewer Foreign Businesspeople, Tourists, Students, and Relatives Be Visiting the United States?” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 29: 619-636.
- Thomas, Jacob Richard. 2025. “Too Local Relative to What? Cross-National and Cross-Disciplinary Variability in the Tension Between Local and Cosmopolitan Coverage of Publications”, in special issues on “Localism and Cosmopolitanism”, International Sociological Reviews (International Sociology).
- Thomas, Jacob Richard. \"A Cooperative Framework Incorporating the Concerns of Both Migrant-Destination and Migrant-Origin Countries into Migration Policymaking.\" Chinese Political Science Review (2025): 1-27.
- Thomas, Jacob Richard. 2024. \"Disenchanted With the Immigrant Dream: The Sociological Formation of Ex-Immigrant Subjectivity.\" European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie: 1-40.
Contacts
Location at the university
16:00 to 17:00 Wednesdays
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Building: Building C, Corivnus University
Room number: 526
Extension:
Main line:
Fax:
Internal fax:
jrt@uni-corvinus.hu
1093
jacobrthomas.me
16:00 to 17:00 Wednesdays