Tamara Kay was born in Patchogue on Long Island and raised in Harrison, New York, a town thirty miles north of Manhattan. She received her B.A. in sociology and art theory and practice from Northwestern University in 1993. After graduating, she worked at the American Bar Foundation and the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. In 1995 she spent six months in Guadalajara, Mexico serving as volunteer HIV-AIDS educator.
In 1996 she began her graduate degree in sociology at Berkeley, which she completed in 2004. From 2004-6 she was a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. In fall 2006, she began her appointment as Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Harvard. Dr. Kay has affiliations with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, participates on the faculty of Film Studies, and is a Co-Director of the Transnational Studies Initiative.
Her work centers on the political and legal implications of regional and economic integration, transnationalism, and global/regional governance.
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