معرفی
Tom Wooten is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University in the Department of Sociology within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on poverty, education, and crime and criminalization, investigating how institutional systems perpetuate inequality in the United States through ethnographic studies of low-income individuals' lived experiences.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University (2022)
Research Interests
Dr. Wooten’s ethnographic work examines the institutional landscape of poverty, including low-wage employers, segregated neighborhoods, schools, exploitative financial services, and the criminal legal system. Current projects include studying young men’s transitions from high school to college, survival strategies in urban gun conflicts, and the cash bail system with Charlotte Baker. His prior work on disaster recovery includes two books: No One Had a Tongue to Speak (with Utpal Sandesara) on the 1979 Machhu dam disaster and We Shall Not Be Moved on post-Katrina New Orleans. His research has appeared in The American Journal of Sociology and Criminology, with a forthcoming book on college transitions for low-income students under contract with the University of Chicago Press.
