BIOGRAPHY

Jeremy Fiel (“feel”) has accepted life in society, and he enjoys using Sociology to try to understand it. He researches processes that shape segregation and inequality, usually with respect to race or class and often in the context of education. Fiel works at a deliberate pace, but his research has earned some recognition from sociologists of education, and he appreciates whenever someone reads it. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a previous life, he grew up in West Texas, earned a Chemistry degree, and taught and coached high schoolers in Mississippi. He enjoys woodworking and other old-fashioned fun.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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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