Steven Schmidt

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National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow
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I am a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. My research examines how housing shapes family wellbeing, and much of my work uses in-depth interviews with renters to show how the affordable housing crisis widens inequalities among families. In particular, I focus on the rental experiences of Latino/a/x immigrants, who are underrepresented in urban sociological research. I received a PhD in sociology at UC Irvine and a BA in Spanish from Kenyon College.

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