Erin Ruel
Associate Professor Sociology- Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003
- Specializations
Intersection of Race, Class, Gender and Location Stratification
- Biography
Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Ruel joined the sociology faculty at Georgia State University in the Fall of 2005, after a two year postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago where her research focused on new methods for analyzing occupational segregation by sex and race.
Much of Dr. Ruel’s research has been spent applying newer research methods to addressing old research issues and problems in stratification and social inequality. She is currently addressing issues of health disparities as a function of homelessness, housing, and racial residential segregation.
Dr. Ruel teaches social research methods, sociology of health and illness, and social inequality.