Brielle Bryan
Assistant Professor, Faculty Affiliate
SURF Mentoring
Potential projects/topics: Examining the unintended consequences of criminal justice system contact for housing opportunities and socioeconomic wellbeing
Potential skills gained: greater comfort reading & digesting research articles, practice creating publication-ready tables of statistical results, possible experience running statistical models (if interested)
Required qualifications: Attention to detail; some statistical background desired, but not strictly required
Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I.
Research Areas
Her research examines inequality and barriers to opportunity in the United States, with an emphasis on racial inequities and the role of the criminal justice system. Her current projects examine how incarceration and felony conviction shape housing experiences, financial inclusion, wealth, interaction with the social safety net, and economic stability over the life course. She is also engaged in research terms investigating the consequences of fair chance housing policies and cross-national indigenous versus white disparities in child welfare system contact.
