Anne Clark

Anne Clark is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan. She is a quantitative sociologist specializing in racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities in education and housing.

A central question underlies her work: How does racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic inequality reproduce itself via its influence on young people’s attitudes and behavior? Using longitudinal survey data, she follows young people growing up in under-resourced schools, neighborhoods, and/or families. She pinpoints how these environments trigger shifts in their attitudes and behavior that keep them trapped in cycles of disadvantage. Her ongoing research examines two substantive areas: attitudes towards mathematics during childhood and adolescence and housing instability during the transition to adulthood. Peer-reviewed studies from these projects have been published in Social Problems and Demographic Research.