People

Patricia Herzog, Rice Affiliate
Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. She comes from the University of Notre Dame, where she worked for five years in the Department of Sociology and served as the Assistant Director for the Center for the Study of Religion and Society. Dr. Herzog’s recent dissertation research, entitled “People in Context: Perceptions of Social Dissonance and Community Involvement,” investigates the ways that communities respond to spatial inequality. According to her findings, social inequalities are embedded in spatially- related patterns and boundaries, which connect and exclude social groups in ways that influence life outcomes. Herzog seeks to answer how communities create and respond to these spatially stratified contexts and how members of a community respond to the constraints and opportunities to which they are exposed.
Interests: urban sociology, social satisfaction, social theory, and sociology of religion
Contact:psh2@rice.edu

Kimberly Hoang, Rice Affiliate
Dr. Hoang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rice University. Her appointment is supported by the Kinder Institute for Urban Resesarch and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.
Interests: Gender and Sexuality, Globalization and Transnationalism, Sociology of Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Social Inequality and Poverty, Ethnographic Research Methods
Contact: 713-348-3238,kayhoang@rice.edu

Emily Straus, Rice Affiliate
Emily E. Straus is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. She holds her Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University (2006), and her B.A. in History from the Columbia University (1995).
Interests: United States metropolitan history, the history of education, and the history of race
Contact:emily.straus@rice.edu