NCID-1743
Mosi Ifatunji
Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Education/Degree:
1 Sociology (University of Illinois at Chicago)
About
Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an assistant professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also served as the instructor for a course on Race, Ethnicity and Quantitative Epistemologies at the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research at the University of Michigan. Before joining the faculty at UNC, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Program for Research on Black Americans at the University of Michigan and in both the Department of Sociology and the Carolina Population Center at Chapel Hill.Broadly speaking, his research interests are in race, culture, biology, and social stratification. To this end, he conducts various comparisons between African Americans and Black immigrants in a quasi-experimental design that he calls the black ethnic comparative.
Current Work
Dr. Ifatunji's work has sought to explain why Black immigrants do better than African Americans in the US labor market. His work shows that this is not due to differences in hard or soft skills, but more closely associated with the preferences and biases of White managers. That is, Black immigrants with White managers have higher earnings than those without White managers, but there is no such White manager effect for African Americans.
Research Area Keyword(s)
health and biology, race and ethnicity, research methods, Social stratification