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Omar Wasow (Omar Tomas Wasow) was born on 1970 in Nairobi, Kenya, is an American academic and entrepreneur. Discover Omar Wasow's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
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He is a member of famous academic with the age 54 years old group.
Omar Wasow Height, Weight & Measurements
At 54 years old, Omar Wasow height not available right now. We will update Omar Wasow's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Omar Wasow's Wife?
His wife is Jennifer Brea (m. 2012)
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Omar Wasow Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Omar Wasow worth at the age of 54 years old? Omar Wasow’s income source is mostly from being a successful academic . He is from Kenya. We have estimated Omar Wasow's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Published four days before the murder of George Floyd, his American Political Science Review paper on violent and nonviolent civil rights protests in the 1960s was widely discussed in media coverage of the George Floyd protests.
Altmetric ranked the paper in the top 1% (1,000 of 18 million papers).
Controversy erupted after David Shor was fired from his job at Civis Analytics, a progressive data analytics company, for tweeting a summary of Wasow’s paper.
Wasow has written commentary on the George Floyd protests and the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
In Summer 2021, Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
In 2022, he left Pomona College to become an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science.
Omar Tomas Wasow (born December 22, 1970) is an assistant professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science.
He is co-founder of the social networking website BlackPlanet.
Wasow grew up in a multi-ethnic family.
His father, Bernard, is of German Jewish heritage, and his mother, Eileen, is African-American.
Bernard was a civil rights activist who participated in the Freedom Summer Project, which entailed registering Black voters in Mississippi.
Wasow's paternal grandfather was the mathematician Wolfgang R. Wasow.
Both Wolfgang Wasow and Omar Wasow's paternal grandmother are of German Jewish heritage.
Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was president of the student union.
He then graduated from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in race and ethnic relations.
Wasow earned a PhD in African-American studies, an MA in government and an MA in statistics, all from Harvard University.
In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace."
In 1999 he created BlackPlanet, one of the first major social networking sites.
In 2008, the company was sold for $38 million.
In 2012, Wasow married Jennifer Brea, a documentary filmmaker he met while they were both Ph.D. students at Harvard.
Wasow became an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University in 2013.
Wasow’s work centers on race and ethnic politics and social movements and protests.
He appears in her documentary film Unrest about her experience living with myalgic encephalomyelitis which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
Wasow's sister is the filmmaker Althea Wasow, married to the writer Paul Beatty.
