My research examines how parents’ education shapes inequality from infancy through adulthood. 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 the transmission of educational advantages from parents to children.
His current work extends this research to higher education and Latinx college students, examining how ambiguity around the first-generation college label perpetuates racial inequality. In a related project in elementary schools, he studies how middle-class Mexican American parents navigate well-resourced, predominantly Latinx public schools in San Antonio, Texas, challenging common assumptions about class, race, and schooling in minoritized communities.
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.
