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Brielle Bryan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rice University. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and an MPP from Georgetown University. Her research focuses on inequality and barriers to opportunity in the U.S., particularly racial inequities linked to the criminal justice system.
Her current projects explore how incarceration and felony convictions impact housing, financial inclusion, wealth, and interaction with social safety nets. She collaborates on studies about fair chance housing policies and cross-national disparities in child welfare system contact among Indigenous populations versus white populations.
Dr. Bryan is a 2021 Russell Sage Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pipeline Grantee, and her work has been published in top journals like Demography, Crinology, and Social Science Research. She also belongs to the Osage Nation and contributes to policy-driven research on systemic marginalization.
- Education:
- PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University
- MPP, Georgetown University
Her articles analyze intersections between criminal justice involvement and socioeconomic outcomes, emphasizing quantitative methodologies to quantify disparities in housing, banking access, and wealth accumulation.
- Awards:
- Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant (2021)
- American Sociological Association Recognition
- ICPSR Honors
Her research teams investigate policy interventions like fair chance housing laws, aiming to reduce collateral consequences of criminal justice contact. She also studies Indigenous communities' interactions with child welfare systems through comparative studies.
