• Benjamin Sosnaud is an assistant professor of Sociology in the Sociology & Anthropology Department. His research focuses on the institutional antecedents of social inequality, with a particular focus on inequalities in health outcomes. 

    His recent work centers on socio-demographic disparities in infant mortality in the United States. Other research projects include an analysis of socioeconomic inequalities in under-5 mortality in developing nations, an examination of linkages between class inequalities and voting behavior, and an evaluation of the effects of living wage ordinances in U.S. cities.

    • Ph.D. Harvard University
    • M.A. Harvard University
    • B.A. Duke University
    • Sosnaud, Benjamin and Jason Beckfield. 2017. “Trading Equality for Health? Evaluating the Trade-Off and Institutional Hypotheses on Health Inequalities in the Global South.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 58: 340-356.
    • Sosnaud, Benjamin. 2016. “Living Wage Ordinances and Wages, Poverty, and Unemployment in U.S. cities.” Social Service Review 90: 3-34.
    • Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Laura M. Tach. 2016. “Trends in Income Insecurity Among U.S. Children, 1984-2010.” Demography 53: 419-447.
    • Sosnaud, Benjamin, David Brady, and Steven M. Frenk. 2013. “Class in Name Only: Subjective Class Identity, Objective Class Position, and Vote Choice in American Presidential Elections.” Social Problems 60: 81-99.
    • Introduction to Sociology
    • Applied Social Statistics
    • Social Research Design
    • United States Social Policy
    • Health, Illness, and Society