Kim DaCosta

Associate Professor
kad9@nyu.edu
(212) 992-9818
502 - 1 Wash Pl

Office Hours
Monday 3:00-5:00 (REMOTE)
Tuesday 2:00-4:00

B.A., Sociology, Harvard University, 1989
M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Ph.D., Race and ethnicity, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000

Kim DaCosta is a sociologist interested in racial inequality and, in particular, the contemporary production of racial boundaries. Her book, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007), explores the cultural and social underpinnings of the movement to create multiracial collective identity in the United States. She is currently writing on how interracial extended kin relationships speak to questions of interracial empathy, care and politics. She teaches courses on race in different societies, social mobility, consumerism, and the commercialization of intimate life. DaCosta served as Associate Dean of Students at NYU's Gallatin School for seven years and has been involved in NYU's Prison Education Program since its inception in 2013, most recently as its Faculty Director. She is an Associate Faculty member in the NYU Department of Sociology.

Conferences & Residencies

2021

Kim DaCosta Co-organized Conference on Black Irish Relations

“Where Do We Go From Here? Revisiting Black Irish Relations,” a conference about the intersection of Blackness and Irishness in the history of the United States, was co-hosted and co-organized by Kim DaCosta (NYU Gallatin) and Miriam Nyhan Grey (Glucksman Ireland House).