Belinda C. Lum is an Assistant Professor in the Community, Urbanization, and Culture concentration within the Department of Sociology and affiliated faculty member of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of San Diego. Professor Lum received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California, where she was also a Senior Irvine Fellow at the Center for American Race & Ethnicity. Her areas of specialization include: International Migration, Work and Labor, Social Inequality in Urban Contexts, Public Sociology, and Asian American Studies. Professor Lum is currently working on revising chapters from her dissertation, Immigrants and Los Angeles Labor Unions: Negotiating Empowerment, Politics, and Citizenship for publication. She currently teaches Introduction to Sociology and Work & Labor, and will teach Immigrant America and Asians & Latinos in a Global Economy during the summer and fall. Professor Lum is a Resident Faculty in the Cuyamaca Building in the Vistas.
