Ethan Raker
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of British Columbia
Ethan Raker is a social demographer specializing in disasters. His research uses quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Currently, he is an assistant professor of sociology at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He joined the department in July 2021 after completing a PhD in sociology at Harvard University.
Ethan's research agenda focuses on socio-spatial inequality, disasters, climate change, health, and neighbourhoods. He uses primarily quantitative methods to examine how extreme weather affects population health and demographic processes, with a particular interest in racial and socioeconomic disparities. Some of his recent work appears in Demography, PNAS, Social Forces, and Socius, among other outlets.
Ethan earned his BA in sociology at Columbia, and an AM and PhD in sociology at Harvard, under the supervision of Mary C. Waters. At UBC, he teaches courses on the sociology of health and the demography of disasters. His work has been generously supported by a Malcolm H. Wiener PhD scholarship in poverty and justice at the Harvard Kennedy School and by a Wall scholar faculty fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.