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Ranita Ray is an Associate Professor of Sociology and holder of the Baca Zinn endowed chair at the University of New Mexico. Her work focuses on race, education, gender, and inequality, particularly as they intersect with the experiences of children and youth. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Connecticut (2013).
Ray’s research critiques systemic injustices in education and urban environments. Her book Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom (2025) exposes racial and emotional harm inflicted on marginalized students. Her earlier work The Making of a Teenage Service Class (2018) won multiple awards, including the C. Wright Mills Award.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, including a 2018 grant to study urban inequalities in Las Vegas. She has been featured in Slate, The Atlantic, and local media. Ray also holds prestigious fellowships from the National Academy of Education and the Racial Democracy and Criminal Justice Network.
Her teaching includes courses on Reproductive Justice, Sociological Theory, and Ethnography. Ray actively engages in public sociology, advocating for equitable educational policies and anti-racist practices in classrooms.
