Peter Rich
Position title: Associate Professor of Sociology
Email: peter.rich@wisc.edu
Address:
4426 Sewell Social Science
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Research Interest Statement:
My core research focuses on the relationship between residential attainment and access to educational opportunity in the US, where I investigate connections between structural inequalities and individual choices:
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How do selection processes reflect, reinforce, or reduce racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational attainment, wealth accumulation, childhood health, and economic opportunity?
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How do micro-level decisions contribute to macro segregation and the persistence of inequality over time and between generations?
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And how are choices influenced not only by individual resources and preferences, but also by local geographic, demographic, social, and policy contexts?
Education:
Ph.D., New York University (2016)
Departmental Areas of Interest:
Communities and Urban Sociology; Demography and Ecology; Education; Methods and Statistics; Race and Ethnic Sociology; Social Stratification