Sabrina Pendergrass

Inequality & Social Policy IGERT
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA



Sabrina Pendergrass, originally from Lexington, NC, received her A.B. in Sociology and a certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University in 2002. As an undergraduate, she was honored by the Association of Black Sociologists for her research on intraracial skin color stratification among African Americans. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at Harvard. Her broad interests include cultural sociology, inequality, race and ethnicity, race and American politics, and qualitative methods. Her most recent research has focused on inequality and the contested meanings of American identity, including the role of collective memory. Her qualifying paper involves in-depth interviews with native-born black men about how they draw and bridge the boundaries of a black identity and an American identity.

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