Sociology: Higher education; inequality and mobility; culture; race

When Gail Christopher, executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity and a Mason senior scholar, talks about “ensuring a future,” she’s really talking about creating a system of equity that produces opportunities for everyone to “actualize their potential.”

Blake Silver collects and analyzes data to enable the Honors College to fulfill its mission. His research in Sociology focuses on higher education, inequality and mobility, second-generation immigrant studies, and the transition to adulthood.