Tina Law

Tina Law is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She studies inequality, race and ethnicity, and democracy and specializes in computational and quantitative methods. Her primary area of research focuses on understanding the social and political experiences of racially minoritized and low-income Americans, particularly how they define and advance their goals for housing, safety, and political self-determination in cities that are often highly segregated and anti-democratic. Another growing area of her research focuses on adapting and applying computational methods—namely generative AI and natural language processing—for sociological research. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University, and she was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York Graduate Center and a Democracy Visiting Fellow with the Ash Center on Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.