Davon  Norris

Welcome! I am a 2022 LSA Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan where I will be an Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies beginning in the Fall of 2024. 

I am an economic sociologist who tries to understand how our tools for determining what is valuable, worthwhile, or good are implicated in patterns of inequality with an acute concern for racial inequality. Generally, this empirically manifests in work that studies credit, debt, and finance. However, I more specifically engage in investigations of the functioning and consequences of a range of scores or ratings, from the less complex government credit ratings to the extremely complex algorithmic scores like consumer credit scores. By focusing on questions of valuation, my research speaks across an array of disciplines and brings into relief normative questions about the nature and possibility of ameliorating (racial) inequality and nurturing economic justice in the contemporary United States. My research has been published in outlets such as Social Forces, Socio-Economic Review, Social Problems, and Sociological Forum, and has received awards from the Future of Privacy Forum and American Sociological Association. My work has been funded by the American Sociological Association. 

I am a three-time Buckeye receiving my BS in Accounting (2014), my MA in Sociology (2018), and my PhD (2022) in Sociology all from THE Ohio State University.

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