Profiles in "Inequality" Expertise Area

  • Founded by Professor Scott, CGEST is a one-of-a-kind research unit focused on exploring, identifying, and creating innovative scholarship about underrepresented women and girls in STEM.
  • Swank studies the ways that stigmatized populations accept and challenge social inequalities. He has over 65 publications and often teaches classes on social movements and research methods.
  • Chanley has taught a range graduate and undergraduate courses in the social sciences, with focus on public administration and political science, especially in public policy, women and gender, ethnic and racial studies.
  • Heewon Kim (김정희원) is a scholar-activist who focuses primarily on the issues of power, (in)justice, and violence, drawing on anticolonial and intersectional perspectives.
  • Hosman co-directs the SolarSPELL initiative, focused on building information literacy via offline digital libraries. She is faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Polytechnic School.
  • Charron-Chénier is a sociologist who studies racial inequality in the context of consumer markets.
  • Barker is a historian of slavery and the slave trade in the late medieval Mediterranean and Black Sea.
  • Flores-González' current research explores the effects of racialization on the ways young adults understand national belonging.
  • Sandefur investigates access to civil justice from every angle, exploring how civil justice contributes to and can help reduce social inequality.