Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
Dissertation: “Color, Bodily Capital, and Ethnoracial Division in the U.S. and Brazil.”
Committee: Loïc Wacquant (Chair), Mike Hout, Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Qualifying Exams: Racial Domination in Global Perspective, Political Sociology, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Committee: Loïc Wacquant, Neil Fligstein, Margaret Weir, David Karol (Political Science)

M.A. University of California, Berkeley, Sociology
M.A. Thesis: “Race, Campaign Contributions, and the Road to Electoral Success.”
Committee: Sandra Smith, Margaret Weir, Heather Haveman
                                  *Winner, Herbert Blumer Prize, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley                                

                     B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sociology