Trevon Logan
Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics
The Ohio State University
at time of fellowship
2022 to 2023
Logan will work on a book exploring key issues in the economic analysis of racial disparities. He will combine quantitative data with narrative life histories of 16 African American siblings who were cotton pickers in rural, post-war Mississippi and who are now retired and live in the upper Midwest.
Inequality is as old—and in fact older—than the founding of the Republic in the United States, and for social scientists to understand racial inequality will require us to understand a deeply a humanistic approach to race and racialization.