about me
MARIA ABASCAL
I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. I received my PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University, and I completed a postdoc in the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University.
Broadly, I am interested in intergroup relations and boundary processes, especially as they pertain to race, ethnicity and nationalism. Most of my current research explores racial classifcation in the United States. I draw on a range of quantitative methods and data sources, including original lab, survey, and field experiments.
Ongoing projects also examine Latinos' political attitudes as well as the relationship between racial/ethnic diversity and cooperation.
Are you thinking about doing research on racial/ethnic "diversity" and its consequences? Think twice. Chances are the theories you are going to test and the empirical measures you are going to use are about non-White or immigrant share, rather than diversity, i.e., heterogeneity. Check out my recent paper with Flavien Ganter and Delia Baldassarri through this link.