Donald Tomaskovic-Devey

Donald "Don" Tomaskovic-Devey (born 1957) is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Tomaskovic-Devey received his B.A. from Fordham University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1984, both in sociology.

Tomaskovic-Devey served as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina for one year (1983-1984) and has held visiting appointments at Stockholm University, Queensland University of Technology, SciencePo, and Bielefeld University. He then taught at North Carolina State University for 17 years before joining the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2005. As of July 1, 2015, he was also working with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to inform its goals and those of other nondiscrimination employment organizations. He was also the president of the Southern Sociological Society for one year (2012-2013).

Tomaskovic-Devey is known for his research on labor market and workplace inequality. For example, a In 2012, he and Kevin Stainback published the book Documenting Desegregation, in which they noted, among other things, that workplace segregation was ubiquitous in the United States prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The same book showed that in one-sixth of industries in America, racial segregation between white and black men was increasing. He and Stainback had previously shown (in a 2009 study) that the overrepresentation of white men among managers in the U.S. had remained virtually unchanged since 1966.

Tomaskovic-Devey was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2006, and was the secretary of the American Sociological Association from 2006 to 2010. He received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014.