Darwin Baluran

Darwin Baluran

Assistant Professor, Sociology, Faculty Scholar in the Institute for Public Health


My research aims to theoretically unpack and empirically analyze how racialization and racism differentially harm marginalized communities, including people of Asian descent. I utilize a variety of methods, from formal demography to in-depth interviews, to uncover mechanisms that reproduce racial inequality across various domains of social life, from criminal legal contact to health. Thus, while my work is in conversation with literatures across disciplines and subfields, my scholarship is firmly rooted in the sociology of race. My current research agenda focuses on three streams of inquiry: (1) race and criminal legal outcomes; (2) the health impacts of racialization and racism; and (3) the intersection of racialization, criminal legal contact and health. My work has been published in Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The British Journal of Criminology, Population Research and Policy Review, among others.


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