About
Davis Daumler is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan, where he is an affiliate with the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and a Population Studies Center trainee at the Institute for Social Research. His work engages with topics of stratification, social mobility, and economic sociology.
He has developed two broader projects. The first investigates how the timing of childhood poverty contributes to intergenerational inequalities. And the second explores the process by which families accumulate wealth and the larger shift in society’s reliance on household finances as a private safety net.
Daumler's research has received funding and grant support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Poverty Solutions, and the James N. Morgan Innovation in the Analysis of Economic Behavior Fund. In 2023, he won the Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility.
Before joining the department, Daumler received his bachelor's and master's degrees from McGill University. In 2016, he was awarded the Outstanding Graduating Student Award by the Canadian Sociological Association.
