Keynote Speakers

Filiz Garip is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Her work has been published in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Population and Development Review, Sociological Methods and Research. Her book, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration, has won three best book awards.

Janet Gornick is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Since 2016, she has served as director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio‐Economic Inequality. Most of her research is comparative and concerns social welfare policies and their impact on gender disparities in the labor market and/or on income inequality. She is the co‐author or co‐editor of three books: Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment (Russell Sage Foundation, 2003), Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor (Verso Press, 2009), and Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries (Stanford University Press, 2013). She serves on several advisory and editorial boards, including for the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ); the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS); Pathways Magazine; the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG); The Russell Sage Foundation Journal; the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR); and the Journal of European Social Policy.

Amy Hsin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York. She researches topics at the intersection of education, immigration and social inequality, employing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Her research has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, Demography, Social Forces, International Migration Review and other venues and has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Economist, TIME, and NPR. She has received support from the National Science Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is an associate editor of International Migration Review and on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review and was recently selected for inclusion in City and States' 100 Education Power List. 

Stephen P. Jenkins is Professor of Economic and Social Policy, in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Stephen enjoys teaching on courses at both undergraduate and masters levels and also PhD supervision. Stephen is also part of the teaching faculty in the School of Public Policy, and coordinates the Global Inequalities Observatory in LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. Stephen is a quantitative generalist with most of his research about income inequality and poverty, and also mobility. His work addresses topics such as the rise in top incomes and their contribution to recent increases in inequality, how to measure poverty persistence and assess which factors trigger exits from a poverty spell. He also researches related topics such as labour market participation and the tax and benefit system. He has interests in quantitative research methods including statistical graphics, and the use of survey and administrative record data. 

Tim F. Liao is Professor & Head of Sociology and Professor of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a 2017–2018 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow and serves on the executive committee of the Sequence Analysis Association. He is a Deputy Editor of Demography, an Associate Editor of Advances in Life Course Research, and a former Editor of Sociological Methodology. His research focuses on inequality, life course, and sequence analysis. His recent publications have aimed to bring social structure into the measurement of income inequality, quantify linked lives and group comparisons in sequence analysis, and analyze the associations of social and economic inequalities with health outcomes including Covid-19 incidence, mortality, and vaccination coverage, in journals such as JAMA Network Open, Scientific Reports, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods & Research, Sociological Science, and Socius. 

Vida Maralani is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Cornell who studies social inequality and how it comes about. How do families come to have certain bundles of resources? How is inequality passed down from parents to children? How does it change over time? Her research is distinctive for using demography as a lens for examining the multidimensionality and dynamics of inequality. She works in the areas of social stratification, especially by education and gender; child investment and women’s work trajectories; and social inequalities in health and health behaviors.

David Pettinicchio is Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of disability, health, politics and policy, and inequality. Within these areas, he examines the gendered, racialized, a classed dimensions of disability-based inequality. He has published widely on the topic of employment and economic inequalities among people with disabilities. He and his team recently conducted a two-wave national survey on how Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions have managed during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in-depth qualitative interviews with participants. Published work stemming from this data has focused on numerous outcomes, including policy and political attitudes, financial insecurity, and mental health outcomes.