Ángel is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley who conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, policing, incarceration, and housing. Their dissertation investigates contemporary mechanisms of segregation with a focus on U.S. suburbs by exploring the impact of (1) prison proliferation and (2) evictions. His empirical research on racial and renter threat in California suburbs was recently published in Social Problems. Ángel’s work has received generous support from the National Science Foundation, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society, and the Russell Sage Foundation. They received a Master of City Planning from the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley and BAs in sociology and economics from the University of Southern California.
RECENT PUBLICATION
Policing the California Outercity (2023) Social Problems
This article, which received an award from the American Sociological Association, draws on a unique panel dataset of over 200 California municipalities to test for evidence of racial and renter threat in the suburban periphery, particularly in the wake of the foreclosure crisis and gentrification and displacement in the coastal urban core.
METHODS
Computational, Spatial, and Qualitative
With training in computational social science as well as spatial and interview-based methods, my work draws on data sources ranging from the U.S. Census to housing market data, voter files, and in-depth interviews.