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I am an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Founding Director of the Numbers 4 Justice Lab in the Black Studies Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. I am a quantitative sociologist, race scholar, survey methodologist, and leading expert in the emerging field of QuantCrit. My research focuses on the critical study of race and racism within four overlapping areas of inquiry: (1) K-16 schooling contexts; (2) categorization, identity, and ascription, (3) social attitudes, prejudice, and discrimination; and (4) justice, marginalization, and social control.My research has been published in top tier journals, including Educational Researcher, Social Science Research, Socius, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Race and Justice, among others, and featured in prestigious outlets such as Inside Higher Ed, PBS, The Washington Post, Education Week and Scientific American.My current work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as well as with funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors, College of Liberal Arts, Black Studies Institute, and Population Research Center at UT Austin. Prior studies were supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Student Experience Research Network, and American Educational Research Association Grants Programs.

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