
Postdoctoral Scholar (2022–2024)
Tina Law is a sociologist who studies race and ethnicity, inequality, and social change in U.S. cities. Her research is centered on understanding the social and political experiences of racially minoritized residents in cities, and she uses computational, quantitative, and historical methods to examine how they are impacted by urban transformations and their strategies for fostering political empowerment and self-determination. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in 2022 and will be joining UC Davis as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in July 2024.
Law joined the Stone Center in the fall semester of 2022.
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
Urban Inequality
Race and Ethnicity
Political Participation
Computational Social Science
- Journal Article: Updating “The Future of Coding”: Qualitative Coding with Generative Large Language Models
- Research Spotlight: AI Policymaking: A New Paper Looks at How Social Scientists Can Expand the Focus from Safety to Equity
- Center News: Stone Center’s Fourth Cohort of Postdocs to Start Tenure-Track Positions
- Journal Article: Artificial Intelligence Policymaking: An Agenda for Sociological Research
- Journal Article: Training Computational Social Science Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers
- Interview: Tina Law on Training Computational Social Scientists and Her Own Path to Becoming One


