Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, December 17 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Christina Cross “Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families.”
Cross is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, where she has been since 2019.
She holds a PhD in Public Policy and Sociology and an MA in Sociology, both from the University of Michigan, and a BA in Sociology from Emory University.
Her first book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families (Harvard University Press, 2025) was released earlier this year.
At RSF, Cross is examining the varying impacts of single parenthood on academic, mental health, and behavioral outcomes among African American, White, Latino, and Asian children, and investigating what factors may cause variation in the effects of single parenthood. She is utilizing data from the National Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.