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Welcome! I am Davon Norris, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) and Faculty Associate at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan.
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 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 Nature Human Behaviour, 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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