Tod G. Hamilton is a Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. His research examines how patterns of migration and social inequality shape population health, social mobility, and demographic change, connecting historical and contemporary processes to broader questions about population dynamics and social stratification.
His research has appeared in leading journals in the field, including Demography, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Demographic Research, and the American Journal of Epidemiology. He is the author of Immigration and the Remaking of Black America, which documents how immigration has transformed the composition and experiences of the U.S. Black population since the 1960s. The book also provides a comprehensive methodological and theoretical approach for understanding the integration of Black immigrants into the United States from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. It offers a new lens for examining the mechanisms driving changes in racial disparities and the measurement of those changes in the context of growing immigration across various domains, including health, education, and labor markets.
Immigration and the Remaking of Black America received the 2020 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography from the American Sociological Association (ASA) and an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from ASA’s International Migration Section.