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Michela Musto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. Her research focuses on areas such as gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, education, children and families, and sports. She investigates how the notion of 'exceptionalism' intersects with everyday life, particularly in the contexts of K-12 schooling and professional sports. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, Musto addresses how school processes shape the gendered and racialized assessments of middle school students' intelligence. Her work is published in various peer-reviewed journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Gender & Society, and Sociology of Sport Journal. She is also the co-author of 'Child's Play,' an edited volume published by Rutgers University Press that delves into social inequality in youth sports. Before joining Brown, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research and served as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. Musto earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California, and her BS and MA in Sociology and Statistics from the University of Michigan.
Brown University • Providence, RI, United States
Teaching in the Sociology Department with a focus on gender, race, and educational inequality.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conducting research and teaching in the field of Sociology.
Stanford University, Clayman Institute for Gender Research • Stanford, CA, United States
Engaged in research on gender and social inequalities.
Department: Department of Economics