Linsey Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University with an affiliate appointment in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her research focuses on uncovering factors that contribute to persisting racial inequality and poverty in the United States. Empirically, she focuses on neighborhoods, work, bureaucratic institutions, and schools as critical contexts that reproduce social disparities. Her most recent line of research examines racial disparities in work hours, and the relationship between precarious work experiences and health.
She is the author of The Time Trap: Neighborhoods, Time and the Reproduction of Poverty in an American City (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press), which examines the effects of poverty and neighborhood context on time use.
Dr. Edwards is a graduate of University of Maryland, College Park, and received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Princeton University in 2018
