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 (1) stratification and social mobility; (2) economic sociology; (3) racial/ethnic inequality; and (4) demographic and quantitative methods.
His dissertation project consists of two lines of research. The first examines the timing of childhood poverty, to generate explanations for how life-course dynamics reinforce population-level inequalities. The second investigates wealth accumulation, to advance our understanding of how shifting historical dynamics contribute to inequalities among everyday American families.
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 Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section.
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.
