Angela R. Dixon

Angela R. Dixon is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at Emory University. She completed her PhD in sociology and social policy, with a concentration in demography, from Princeton University in 2018. Before joining the faculty at Emory in 2020, Dr. Dixon was a David E. Bell postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Current Work:

Dr. Dixon’s research uses an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate ethnoracial factors that shape life chances across societies. Dr. Dixon uses survey data and quantitative methodologies to examine how race, ethnicity, skin color, and discrimination structure patterns of socioeconomic stratification and health inequities across societies in the U.S. and Latin America.

Research Area Keyword(s):

race/ethnicity; colorism; social stratification; racial health inequities