About
Sarah Sullivan is a PhD student in sociology, predoctoral trainee in the Population Studies Center, and Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research considers processes of family (re)making throughout the life course, in relation to class, inequality, and economic mobility. She is a mixed-methods scholar interested in how low fertility and population aging are redefining carework and the family form.
Sarah earned her B.A. in Economics and International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She is an affiliate of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, where she works on The Community Study, a project that collects life history interviews to identify mechanisms of economic mobility. She is a former employee of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, passionate about data quality and availability. Sarah is a first generation college student originally from New York.
