Email: cbankst@tulane.edu
Office: Newcomb 217
Phone: 504-862-3024
Fax: 504-865-5544
Research Interests: Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, Education, Asian Studies
Carl L. Bankston III received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1995. His teaching and research interests include international migration, Asian and Asian American studies, sociology of education, and racial and ethnic relations. He is co-author, with Min Zhou, of Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998) and Straddling Two Social Worlds: The Experience of Vietnamese Refugee Children in the United States (2000). Growing Up American received the Thomas and Znaniecki award for outstanding book from the International Migration Section at the 1999 meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Distinguished Book Award from the Mid-South Sociological Association in 2000. His book, A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (2002), co-authored with Stephen J. Caldas, received the Annual Literary Award of the Louisiana Library Association in 2003. His most recently published book, Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns and the New Economy of Ethnicity (December, 2002) was co-authored with Jacques Henry. Bankston is also editor or co-editor of five additional books and has published over 80 journal articles and book chapters.