Blanca A. Ramirez, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at The University of Texas at Austin. Her primary goal as a researcher is to theorize how state structures like law and policing shape group understandings of the legal system, perceptions of agency, and the larger consequences of these dynamics. Her multiple award-winning works have been featured in Social Problems and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the Ford Fellowship Predoctoral Fellowship program, and the Haynes Fellowship Foundation.
Previous research has been published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence and Violence Against Women. Other essays have been published by USC’s Equity Research Institute and the Latino Center for Leadership Development and featured in the Center for New Immigrants. Blanca earned her PhD at the University of Southern California and was previously a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate, she participated in the McNair Scholars Program and the National Leadership Alliance.