Wendy Roth

Inequality & Social Policy IGERT
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA



Wendy Roth received her BA from Yale University (1995) and a Master's degree from Nuffield College, Oxford University (1997), both in Sociology. From 1997-1999, she worked as a Quantitative Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research in London. There she designed and managed an evaluation of a British welfare-to-work program for single parents, and helped create the 1998 Youth Lifestyles Survey to measure youth offending in Britain. Wendy is currently finishing her dissertation, which considers how Dominicans' and Puerto Ricans' racial identifications are shaped by migration to the mainland U.S. and the consequences for migrants' social networks and economic opportunities. She uses comparative qualitative research in San Juan, Santo Domingo, and New York to explore how migration affects conceptions of race for non-migrants as well as migrants. The study examines whether emergent racial identities help explain the socioeconomic differences between light- and dark-skinned Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the mainland U.S. Wendy's other research projects at Harvard include the racial identification of children from Black-White intermarriages (Sociological Forum, March 2005), British immigration to the U.S. (for The New Americans, edited by Mary Waters and Reed Ueda), and rampage school shootings (co-author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, with Katherine Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, and Jal Mehta).

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