Professor, Sociology & Academic Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Co-Director of SAS Affiliations: Criminology and Criminal Justice
My research examines attitudes and interpersonal experiences related to race, ethnicity and immigration status. Much of my work considers how respondents incorrectly perceive facts about immigrant populations. This ignorance is associated strongly with anti-immigrant attitudes in both Europe and the United States. I have also focused a great deal on the consequences of interpersonal racial discrimination for minority and immigrant adolescents. I find that falling victim is linked to involvement in crime and more negative attitudes toward schooling. Recently, my interests have shifted more toward the topic of immigration. Since 2017, I have offered a Sociology of Immigration course with a study abroad in Germany. It is an exciting opportunity that allows students to observe our course content firsthand as we explore Berlin and Hamburg.
Publications
Herda, Daniel. 2026. “Discrimination and Reactive Transnationalism among recent Italian, Polish, Turkish, and Syrian Immigrants in Germany” Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Herda, Daniel. 2026. “Making Sense of Migration and Immigration. Social Problems: Sociology in Action: Third Edition, (ed.) Maxine P. Atkinson and Kathleen Odell Korgen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
McCarthy, Bill, John Hagan, and Daniel Herda. 2025. “Crime, Policing, and Voter Turnout in Chicago’s 2023 and 2019 Mayoral Elections” Urban Affairs Review
Herda, Daniel. 2025. “Review of Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration.” Contemporary Sociology. 53 (3): 259-261.
Herda, Daniel. 2025. “Reactive Ethnicity and the Ascent of the Trump Administration” International Migration. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.70009
Herda, Daniel. 2025. “Reactive Transnationalism and the Ascent of Donald Trump: Evidence from the Latino Immigrant National Election Survey” Global Networks. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12500
Herda, Daniel. 2024. “Miscounting Immigrants in South Africa: Characterizing Over-Estimators in the Immigrant Population Innumeracy Capital of the World.” South African Review of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2024.2349102
Herda, Daniel. 2024. The Sociology of Immigration: Crossing Borders, Creating New Lives. Sage Publications: Los Angeles. Sage Link
Herda, Daniel. 2023. “Taking the Good with the Bad: Considering the Diverse Roster of Contacts between Citizens and Immigrants” Migration & Diversity. 2(3): 279-298. https://doi.org/10.33182/md.v2i3.3047
Herda, Daniel. 2023. “Misperceptions, Intergroup Prejudice, and the Varied Encounters between European Citizens and non-EU Foreigners” International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 35(4): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edad035 [citations 3]
Herda, Daniel. 2023. “Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa.” International Migration Review. 59 (3): 1127-1155. https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183231170794 [citations: 2]
McCarthy, Bill, John Hagan, Daniel Herda, and Wesley Skogan. 2023. “The Past as Prologue: Neighborhood Legacies of Police Misconduct Complaints and Police Stops” Race and Justice. [citations: 2]
Herda, Daniel and Amshula Divadkar (Undergraduate Coauthor). 2023. “The Imagined Immigration and the Criminal Immigrant: Developing a Catalog of Immigrant-Related Ignorance” Migration Letters. 20 (1): 71-87. <https://doi.org/10.59670/ml.v20i1.2773 [citations: 3]
Herda, Daniel. 2023. “Making Sense of Migration and Immigration. Social Problems: Sociology in Action: Second Edition, (ed.) Maxine P. Atkinson and Kathleen Odell Korgen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
