Data Science Institute

Ananda Martin-Caughey is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown University. She received her PhD from New York University in 2023 and previously worked for the U.S. Census Bureau and Urban Institute. Martin-Caughey's research centers on stratification, work & organizations, gender, and race. She is particularly interested in how work is changing and the implications for inequality and gender and racial stratification. Martin-Caughey's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

How does your research, teaching, or other work relate to data or computational science?

My research involves using text analysis and large datasets to assess inequality and gender and racial stratification in the world of work. For example, my published research looks at the text similarity of job titles and task descriptions from a nationally representative survey to examine cohesiveness and segregation within occupational groups. Ongoing projects involve rarely analyzed text data on jobs from the American Community Survey and the Internal Revenue Service. I am also using a dataset of billions of job ads from Lightcast to assess changes in workplace inequality.