Jordan Conwell

Jordan Conwell is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His research primarily focuses on racial, social class, and gender inequality in education, families, and finances. Additional scholarly interests include research methods and the sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois. His research has appeared in journals including Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, and Sociology of Education and has been funded by Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. He also engages with public and policy audiences about topics related to his research, such as writing for research-based, nonpartisan organizations including EconoFact, and speaking at Texas Instruments and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He completed a Ph.D. in sociology at Northwestern University in 2017.