Sociology
Isabel Levin is a proud graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (B.A. in Sociology, minor in Education) and a current Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Brown. As an undergraduate, she developed her research skills through programs including the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates at UT Austin and the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program at UNC Chapel Hill.
She has worked on projects within the sociology of law and gender as a research assistant (primarily by conducting interviews), though her personal interests broadly lie in education, family, and immigration. Specific projects of hers have assessed the actions taken by North Carolina school administrators to meet the needs of Latino families and the impact of intergenerational closure on educational attainment. In her future research projects, she is excited to explore family-school relationships, child-rearing and parental educational involvement, and the role of schools in community development and family socialization. She has presented her work at the American Sociological Association and the Population Association of America Annual Meetings, and looks forward to expanding her intellectual community with like-minded scholars in the years to come. In her free time, she enjoys practicing yoga, watching reality TV, and hanging out with her beloved cat, Grover.
