Arianne Eason
University of California, Berkeley
2025 to 2026

Fellows Type
Eason will interrogate the psychological causes for why children and adults maintain and perpetuate racial segregation, using survey and experimental methods. She hypothesizes that there is a mutually reinforcing cycle of segregation whereby structural segregation instills the perception that people prefer same-race peers. In turn, these perceptions are used to justify continued racial segregation.