I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. As part of my dissertation work, I serve as a Fellow at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and as a core member of the Wealth and Mobility (WAM) Study. As a Trainee at the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, I have been funded by the National Institutes of Health. I came to the University of Michigan with an M.S. in data science from the City University of New York, a B.A. in economics from Hampshire College, and a year of graduate coursework in economics from Sciences Po–Paris. From 2014 to 2015, I served as a Fulbright in Bulgaria. My research primarily concerns income and wealth inequality; it is situated within the fields of fiscal sociology, stratification, historical institutionalism, and political economy. My dissertation examines the role of pensions in the development of American wealth stratification.
Please find my CV here and feel free to contact me at asherd@umich.edu.