Jonathan Amoyaw MA, PhD

Dr. Amoyaw is a sociologist whose research investigates the social processes that sustain and reproduce social inequality. Much of his work focuses on understanding the myriad ways in which social disadvantage cumulates over the life course and across generations and how they can be addressed in a sustained manner. He examines how social policy, family structures, and dynamics, social transitions, and social identities drive socioeconomic and health disparities. His current and future projects focus on 1) the effect of family structures on vulnerability to adverse health outcomes, 2) the intergenerational effects of immigrants’ transnational engagements and precarious legal status transitions and 3) how early family transitions impact the well-being of adolescents. Dr. Amoyaw’s research advances new conceptual and methodological insights relevant to scholarship on the dynamics and contexts of social vulnerability and inequality.