Meaghan Mingo
Meaghan Mingo is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her PhD in Sociology from Cornell University, where she was an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality.
Her research examines the nexus of race, place, punishment, and institutions in shaping the holistic life experiences of children and youth. She explores what creates and maintains inequality in institutions, while also examining how actors imagine, disrupt, and strive for alternative systems and outcomes. Her current project draws on two years of in depth, ethnographic fieldwork at a small, predominantly Black junior high school in the rural Louisiana Delta and examines the complex social, cultural, historical, and political factors shaping school discipline and the treatment of Black children in schools.
Meaghan’s work has been published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, American Journal of Men’s Health, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Sociology Compass, and Oxford Bibliographies of Sociology. Prior to Notre Dame, Meaghan worked in the nonprofit and corporate sectors as an researcher, evaluator, and director of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
