Caroline Hanley

Assistant Professor

Office: 231 Morton
Email: [[cehanl]]
Phone: 757-221-2594
Office Hours: M, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm or by appt. (Spring)
Personal Website: {{http://wmpeople.wm.edu/cehanl}}

Areas of Specialization

Social stratification, Social Inequality, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology, Labor Markets, Work, State and Local Development Policy

Education

B.A., Sociology, Wellesley College, 1998

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Teaching

Professor Hanley teaches in the areas of social stratification and inequality, urban sociology and research methods. Her courses include American Society (SOCL 203), Urban Sociology (SOCL 306), and Wealth, Power and Inequality (SOCL 310).

Research

Professor Hanley's research investigates the causes of rising economic inequality in the United States after 1970, with a focus on the ways in which spatial inequalities both reflect and reproduce social inequalities. Using quantitative methods she examines the influences of local labor market characteristics, historical and contemporary racial-gender inequalities, and state economic development policies on earnings restructuring. A new project combines quantitative and archival methods to examine how restructuring at General Electric during the 1960s and 1970s affected the spatial division of labor in the United States, setting the stage for national earnings restructuring and rising inequality after 1970.