Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
Fellow, Data Science Institute and Assistant Professor of Sociology

My Contact Info

607 Knox Hall
606 West 122nd Street
New York, NY 10027

212-853-1909
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Gerard Torrats-Espinosa

Research Interest

Inequality
Urban Sociology
Health & Population
Race, Ethnicity, & Migration
Quantitative Methodology


Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Gerard Torrats-Espinosa received his Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University in 2019. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Data Science Institute and Assistant Professor of Sociology. His research draws?from the literatures on urban sociology, stratification, and criminology,??and it focuses on?understanding how the spatial organization of the American stratification system creates and reproduces inequality.? Gerard’s current research agenda investigates (1) how the neighborhood context, particularly the experience of community violence, determine the life chances of children; (2) how social capital and social organization emerge and evolve in spatial contexts; and (3) how place and geography structure educational and economic opportunity in America and elsewhere.?His work has been published or is forthcoming in the?American Sociological Review,?Child Development,?Demography,?Housing Policy Debate, the?Journal of Housing Economics, the?Journal of Urban Economics, and the?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Publications

For a complete list of publications visit https://gerardtorratsespinosa.com/research.