Regina Baker

Regina S. Baker is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research seeks to understand the factors that create, maintain, and shape socioeconomic conditions and disparities across people, places, and time. Her recent and ongoing research areas include poverty and poverty risks across children and families, historical institutional racism and contemporary racial inequality, and the politics of power in the distribution of socioeconomic resources. Overall her work intersects the areas of stratification/inequality, family, race, gender, historical sociology, and political sociology. She has published in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, and Social Forces. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University in 2015.