Brielle Bryan
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
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Biography
Brielle Bryan received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and her MPP from Georgetown University. Her research examines inequality and barriers to opportunity in the United States, with an emphasis on racial inequities and the role of the criminal justice system. Her current projects examine how incarceration and felony conviction shape housing experiences, financial inclusion, wealth, interaction with the social safety net, and economic stability over the life course. She is also engaged in research terms investigating the consequences of fair chance housing policies and cross-national indigenous versus white disparities in child welfare system contact.
Dr. Bryan is a 2021 Russell Sage Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Pipeline Grantee and a proud member of the Osage Nation. Her work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and has been published in Social Forces, Demography, Criminology, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Science Research, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Recent Publications
- Maternal Wealth Implications of Child Incarceration: Examining the Upstream Consequences of Children’s Incarceration for Women’s Assets, Homeownership, and Home Equity. Demography. 2024;61(6):1845–1870. Full text PDF download
- Locked out of Banking: The Limits of Financial Inclusion for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals. Social Science Research. 2024;122: 103050.
- Support seeking, system avoidance, and citizenship: Social safety net usage after incarceration. Criminology. 2023;61 (4): 860-903.
- Housing Instability Following Felony Conviction and Incarceration: Disentangling Being Marked from Being Locked Up. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 2023;39:833–874.
Media
- “New Report Paints Gloomy Picture of Racial Economic Differences” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
- “Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since Census started tracking it, data shows” Washington Post
- “A new explanation for the stubborn persistence of the racial wealth gap” Washington Post
- “The Production of Wealth Gaps between Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics” Work In Progress
- “Owning your own home doesn’t make you rich. Owning somebody else’s does.” Washington Post