Andrew Penner

Andrew Penner is a professor of sociology with the Department of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Penner serves as director of the UCI Center for Administrative Data Analysis (CADA). He is also a fellow with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University and is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association. His research interests lie broadly within the field of inequality, where he focuses on race, gender, and family inequalities in education and the labor market. He is particularly interested by the role of societal categories in creating inequalities, examining how we create social categories, imbue these categories with meaning and sort people into the resulting categories. Penner earned a BA in sociology from the University of Chicago along with an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2024