Bailey Brown is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Spelman College. Prior to her position at Spelman, Brown was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. Bailey received her PhD in sociology from Columbia University. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology with minors in urban education and Africana studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Brown was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, a Leadership Alliance Fellow, graduated cum laude, and received top departmental honors for her senior thesis. Brown’s forthcoming book Kindergarten Panic: Parental Anxiety and School Choice Inequality under contract with Princeton University Press explores how school choice policy reproduces inequality by extending parents’ school decision-making labor. Brown researches and teaches on the sociology of education, research methods, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, and inequality.
