My research examines how schools serve as social institutions that reflect and perpetuate broader systems of inequality. Working at the intersection of sociology and education, I seek to develop new theoretical and empirical understandings of how race, immigration status, social class, and gender intersect to shape everyday experiences in schools and families. I examine how inequality is produced through processes such as family socialization, parent–school interaction, and how schools, through their daily routines and practices, uphold existing systems of privilege and disadvantage. I draw on qualitative and quantitative methods to study questions such as how low-income Latino parents construct support networks, how racism serves as a fundamental cause of racialized educational disparities, and how parental education shapes infant health. These lines of research are part of a broader effort to build conceptual frameworks that explain how educational advantages are reproduced across generations. His most recent work has appeared in various outlets, including the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Sociological Perspectives, and Social Science and Medicine – Population Health.
