The Illinois Diversity and Equity Science (IDES) group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is committed to combining different disciplinary perspectives and applying a diverse set of empirical tools to understand and ameliorate racial and ethnic inequities.
Meet the IDES Team
Cynthia Buckley
Sociology
Peter Christensen
Economics
Stewart Coles
Communication
Travis Dixon
Communication
Avital Livny
Political Science
Aixa Marchand
Educational Psychology
Eva Pomerantz
Psychology
Michael Rizzo
Psychology
IDES Research Themes
Identifying sources of inequality
Researchers use interdisciplinary methods to uncover where, how, and why biases, prejudices, and other forms of inequity develop.
Interventions that promote inclusion and equity
Experiments and other interventions help shed insight into how to address and eradicate inequity.
Empirical methods for studying diversity and (in)equality
Developments in machine learning, big data analysis, and qualitative research best practices pave the way for the development of new methods to understand diversity and equity.
For more information, contact Elsa Augustine at elsaa@illinois.edu.