Elizabeth Jacobs

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her research agenda asks how institutions – state, corporate, and academic – shape the economic, social and spatial mobility of immigrants and refugees. Using computational techniques, she constructs and analyzes novel data sources to study the institutional reproduction of inequality in global contexts. Her scholarly interests encompass the areas of migration, race, gender, labor, and education. Her work has appeared in International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Higher Education, Frontiers in Sociology, Harvard Data Science Review and International Migration.

Before joining UConn, Liz was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Before that, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and McCourt School of Public Policy. She has collaborated with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in Geneva, the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) in Paris.

Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (2021)
M.A., Sociology, Columbia University (2015)
B.A., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (2013)