Khoi Ngo’s sociological research is guided by fundamental questions about the degree to which certain groups are systematically disadvantaged by institutions of social control and how said groups internalize or subvert such marginalization. Hence, his subfields of interests are race & ethnicity, social control (policing & incarceration), social movements, and stratification. For his doctoral research, Ngo intends to examine racial profiling in policing, how racial minorities respond to racial profiling through both collective action (i.e., social movements) and everyday practices and beliefs, and how state agencies (e.g., the police) interact with and evolve based on their subjects.