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Sarah Mayorga
Associate Professor of Sociology
Brandeis University
Education/Degree:
1 Sociology (Duke University)
About
Sarah Mayorga is an associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University. She earned her PhD in sociology from Duke University, and is the author of Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood, which won the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Latino/a Sociology Section in 2015.
Current Work
Sarah Mayorga publishes on racial and ethnic inequality, multiracial neighborhoods, Latinx migration, and whiteness. She is currently working on a book project on two working-class neighborhoods in Cincinnati, Ohio — one of the neighborhoods is predominantly white and the other is multiracial. She is interested in how the gentrification of a downtown neighborhood in Cincinnati has shaped neighborhood dynamics in other neighborhoods across the city.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Latinx migration, race and ethnicity, whiteness