Jayanti Owens

Department of Sociology

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Jayanti Owens is a sociologist and demographer studying how the social contexts of schools, families, and workplaces as well as the race and gender of individuals and their evaluators shape evaluations and, ultimately, lead to racial/ethnic and gender disparities in educational and economic outcomes.
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David Rangel

Department of Education

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David Rangel is a sociologist studying the processes that generate social inequality, with emphasis on the Latino experience in the United States.
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Emily Rauscher

Department of Sociology

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Emily Rauscher is a sociologist seeking to understand intergenerational inequality with a focus on education and health. She uses quantitative methods and causal inference techniques to investigate these areas and to identify policies that could increase equality of opportunity.
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Zhenchao Qian

Department of Sociology

Zhenchao Qian is a sociologist; his research areas include social demography, stratification, and inequality. He investigates how assortative mating patterns, changes in marital status, and marital transitions influence individuals’ wellbeing.
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Abigail Harrison

Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, School of Public Health

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Abigail Harrison is an epidemiologist conducting research on global HIV prevention, reproductive health and health disparities among adolescents and young women, with a primary focus on South Africa.
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Mark Blyth

Department of Political Science

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Mark Blyth is a political scientist whose research interests lie in the of field international and comparative political economy. He is interested in how economic institutions and economic ideas change over time, and how this interplay makes possible the distributional politics of a particular historical moment.
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Daniel Hirschman

Department of Sociology

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Daniel Hirschman is a sociologist whose research examines the role of numbers in political and economic life. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the production and circulation of quantitative descriptions of inequality, tentatively titled Unequal Knowledge: The Stylized Facts of Inequality.
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Margot Jackson

Department of Sociology

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Margot Jackson is a sociologist working in the broad areas of social stratification and social demography, with an emphasis on inequality of educational opportunity, health, and children and families. She is interested in the dynamics of inequality over the life cycle and across generations.
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