David Rangel, assistant professor of education, has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship with Brown's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in American (CSREA). The CSREA Fellows Program provides space and interdisciplinary community to share research and work in progress, build stronger intellectual networks, and engage in cross-generational/cross-rank mentorship and dialogue.
Professor Rangel studies the relationship between education and social inequality, with emphasis on the Latinx experience in the United States. In particular, his current research examines family-school relations, focusing on how social class, race, ethnicity, and the broader social context structure relations within families, between families, and between families and schools. He uses quantitative and qualitative methods to document Latinx parent’s experiences in school settings and understand if, how, and to what extent Latinx parents pass on their educational advantages to their children.