Ángel is a recent doctoral graduate in sociology from the University of California Berkeley and incoming Provostial Fellow at Stanford University. Drawing on computational methods, they conduct research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, racial and spatial inequality, incarceration, policing, and housing. Their dissertation revealed the entanglement between two critical and enduring social processes: racial residential segregation and the post-1970 U.S. prison boom. 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 Russell Sage Foundation, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society, and the California Endowment. 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 (2025) 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, spatial and administrative data as well as in-depth interviews.