Anne Clark

After receiving her PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan this summer, Anne Clark will join the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. A central question underlies Clark’s 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.