Maura Kraemer

Maura R. Kraemer is a doctoral candidate of sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a Burns Fellow for the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research. Their research interests are in sociology of education, race/ethnicity, and methods. Currently, their work focuses on the institutional mechanisms of White university spaces and their influence on university students’ understandings of race, racial inequality, and racial attitudes. Maura’s previous work examined how family ethnic-racial socialization operates in schools as racialized organizations, serving as an academic and social tool for Black and White high school students, respectively. Their work has been published in academic journals such as Social Science Research and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Maura graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2018 with a bachelor’s in sociology and Spanish and received their master’s from the University of Chicago in 2020 with a concentration in Education and Society.

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