BIOGRAPHY

I’m sociologist Jeremy Fiel. You may remember me from such research articles as “Decomposing School Resegregation,” “With All Deliberate Speed,” and “Great Equalizer or Great Selector?” My research on segregation, educational inequality, and mobility has earned awards from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Education section, including the James Coleman Award for best article and the Doris Entwisle Early Career Award. Lately I have been studying the impacts automatic admissions policies, school finance reforms, and housing choice vouchers have on educational inequality. Now join me as I travel back in time to study segregation from a relational perspective, examining how race relations and inequality have shaped institutions like the law and education, and vice-versa.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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Rauscher, Emily, and Jeremy E. Fiel. (2025). “Slow Progress: School Finance Reforms and Racial Disparities in Funding.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Published online, September 9, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737251362855

Garnar, Tracy, Sione Lynn Pili Lister, and Jeremy E. Fiel. (2025). “Putting a Label on it: Racial Labels in South Carolina State Laws from 1850-1920.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 11(3):452-468. https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492251327982

Fiel, Jeremy E. (2022). “Opportunity Seeking across Segregated Schools: Unintended Effects of Automatic Admission Policies on High School Segregation.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 44(3):485-504. https://doi.org/10.3102%2F01623737221078286

Fiel, Jeremy E. (2021). “Relational Segregation: A Structural View of Categorical Relations.” Sociological Theory 39(3):153-179. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F07352751211029979

Fiel, Jeremy E., and Yongjun Zhang (equal authorship). (2019). “With All Deliberate Speed: The Reversal of Court-Ordered School Desegregation, 1970-2013.” American Journal of Sociology 124(6):1685-1719. https://doi.org/10.1086/703044