Ixchel Bosworth

Ixchel Bosworth is a Ph.D. student and Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Her research interests broadly include culture, urban poverty, public education and neighborhood effects. Before joining Columbia, Ixchel worked as a teacher for the New York City Department of Education in the Bronx and Washington Heights. While earning her M.A. in Sociology from Columbia University, she studied the impact of the school disciplinary reform initiative restorative justice on student suspension rates and school culture at three New York City public secondary schools in Brooklyn. She is a recipient of the Columbia Provost Diversity Fellowship and a Reducing Inequality Network Scholar. Currently, her research explores how cultural transmission, political economy, and social inequality inform teachers' approaches and outlooks in schools.