Caitlin is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at UCLA. She is broadly interested in inequality in educational and occupational expectations and attainment, and the differential effects of higher education on…

I study the relationship between economic expertise and social policy. The current focus of my research is on what we might call ‘economization’: how are ‘economic’ ways of thinking applied…

My research conceptualizes diasporic identity formation through entangled narratives of racism, nationalism, empire, religion, memory, and trauma – all while centering a liberation theology and praxis. My dissertation analyzes the…