Prof. Almaguer earned his Master's and PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley. He is a leading scholar on racial information in the U.S. and recipient of the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship at the Univ. of Michigan for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

He authored the book Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California and is currently working on a book Border Men: Constructions of Gender and Sexuality among Chicano Gay Men which explores the way Latino gay men reconcile their ethnic and sexual identities.

Tomas Almaguer, Prof. of Ethnic Studies & former Dean, Coll. of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State Univ., is currently Visiting Scholar, Ctr. for Latino Policy Research and the Comparative Ethnic Studies Dept., UC-Berkeley.