Overview
I study inequality in advanced industrial societies and how it is changing over time. My current projects examine the sources of rising income inequality, the effect of occupational “closure” (e.g., licensing, etc.) on wages, occupational plans and their impact on young men and women’s educational decisions, trends in the gender gap in earnings, and gender segregation in higher education.
Recent Courses
SOC 2208/DSOC Social Inequality
SOC 5180 Social Inequality: Contemporary Theories, Debates, and Models
SOC 5190 Workshop on Social Inequality
Research Focus
- Social Inequality and Mobility
- Labor Markets
- Gender Inequality
- Education
- Occupations
- Inequality Measurement
In the news
- Integrating STEM majors won’t end gender segregation at work
- Grants advance social sciences research, collaboration
- Pandemic reshaped ‘small world’ campus networks
- Social sciences center awards COVID-19 grants
- Eight faculty members receive Weiss teaching awards
- New minor track focuses on inequities in health
- Tech companies favor CU social science grads
- Sociology department launches Active Learning Initiative project
- Analysis finds strong consensus on gender transition treatment effectiveness
- Conference examines criminalization of immigrants
- Conference explores impacts of the criminalization of immigration
- Measure of America summer research interns explore human well-being
- Conference explores social mobility and inequality, April 20-22
- Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige
- $2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative
- Cornell scholars examine the structures of inequality