Academic interests
Social inequality, stratification and mobility, migration, organizations, crime and mass incarceration, the military, life course, work and occupations, race and ethnicity, quantitative research methods.
Courses taught
- Mass Incarceration and Race (UMass Amherst)
- Social Class and Inequality (UMass Amherst)
- Work and Socieity (UMass Amherst)
Background
I earned my Ph'D in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In my dissertation "The Military and Incarceration: Hidden Mechanisms of Racial Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market, 1980-2010" I analyze how prison and the military, two crucial but often neglected labor market institutions, have jointly reinforced racial inequality in the U.S. labor market since the 1980s. After graduation, as a Post-doc research at the School of Labor and Employment Relation, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign I produced a series of policy reports on the Illinois labor markets. My works are published at Demography, and Population Research and Policy Review.
Awards
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth Dissertation Grant (2015)
- Best Graduate Instructor Award (2017, UMass Amherst, Department of Sociology)
- SAGE Teaching Innovation & Professional Development Award (2016)
Positions held
- Post-doctoral Research Associate. School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Research Fellow. Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Graudate Instructor, Research Assistance, Teaching Assistance. Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst