SpotlightAnthony Perez
Tony recently arrived at the UW to begin a two year postdoc on Charles Hirschman's NICHD project "Concepts and Measures of Race and Ethnic Identities." Tony just completed a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and in Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where he worked with Yu Xie, David Harris, and Sheldon Danziger, among others. Tony's research interests include race and ethnicity, social demography, and statistical methods with a particular emphasis on causal inference. He just defended his dissertation, entitled "Muddy Waters: The Fluidity and Complexity of Racial and Ethnic Identification in the U.S." In his thesis, Tony examines a number of hypotheses on the social construction of race using Census, CPS, and Add Health data. He shows, for example, that the race, gender, and householder status of parents has a strong influence on the racial identification of children in interracial households. He has published papers in the Journal of Black Studies and in Health, Education, and Behavior, and has several more under review, including one entitled "Hispanic Today, Gone Tomorrow: Locating Ethnic Identity among Latino/a Youth." |
