I am a sociologist, multi-method researcher, educator, and program director whose work focuses on examining issues of equity across healthcare, education, and the criminal legal system. I currently serve as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University New Orleans. I earned my PhD in Sociology from University of Washington in 2019 and completed an National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law & Society at Tulane University between 2019-2021.

My research examines how systems and institutions shape access and inequality—particularly for marginalized communities. My work has focused, primarily, on health, education, and the criminal legal systems. Within health and social welfare programs, I focus on how ideas about race, pregnancy, and poverty shape surveillance, control, and access to services. The research has been supported by fellowships and grants, including University of Washington Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, National Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship, and Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Grant. My work in this area has been featured in Psychology of Women Quarterly and has been presented at interdisciplinary conferences. Within education, I examine the relationship between school choice policies and resulting class and race-based inequities. Within the criminal legal system, I have examined the long-term consequences of police contact with Black youth, which has been published in Social Problems, Race & Social Problems, and Race & Justice, and has been covered in news outlets such as the The Seattle Times, Seattle’s NPR affiliate, and others.

Beyond research, I care deeply about mentorship, teaching, and collaborative learning. For the past four years, I directed Loyola’s Social Justice Scholars Program, a scholarship which supports students’ service and activism work within the New Orleans community. My teaching draws from engaged pedagogy and universal design, with an emphasis on helping students interpret their own expereinces using sociological theory and methods . I have over ten years of teaching in higher ed—teaching in the areas of law & society, sociology of education, medical sociology, reproduction, and qualitative methods.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: aemcglyn@loyno.edu