Maura R. Kraemer

Welcome!  My name is Maura Kraemer (she/they), and I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. I am a Burns Fellow in Notre Dame's Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (ND PIER), a graduate student affiliate in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and the Initiative on Race and Resilience (IRR), and a former graduate fellow for the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.

My research interests are in race and ethnicity, sociology of education, and research methods. Currently, my work focuses on the institutional mechanisms of meaning-making within university spaces and their influence on students’ values, beliefs, and attitudes. My previous work examined how family ethnic-racial socialization operates in schools as racialized organizations, serving as an academic and social tool for Black and White high school students, respectively. My work has been published in academic journals such as Social Science Research, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Journal of Youth Development. 

I graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2018 with a bachelor’s in sociology and Spanish and received a master’s of social science from the University of Chicago in 2020 with a concentration in Education and Society.

Originally from Michigan, I enjoy exploring new places, painting, and spending time with my two dogs, Obi and Duchess Satine (“Sadie”).