Profiles in "Inequality" Expertise Area

  • Smith is an archaeologist who research interests include the Aztecs, Teotihuacan, ancient and modern cities (planning, neighborhoods, scaling), and transdisciplinary social science research.
  • 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.
  • Dr. Haskin's research explores how career-oriented women with young children think about and act toward their maternal bodies in a third shift of appearance work.
  • 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.
  • Dr. Connor uses causal inference and big data to how places, big and small, influence human behavior and the possibilities for action over long periods of time.