Hero Ashman

Exchange Scholar/Visiting Doctoral Student in Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Hero Ashman
432 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138
hero_ashman@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: Stratification, the family, gender, quantitative methods

Hero Ashman is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley and currently a visiting student at Harvard. She studies the role of the family as it relates to the reproduction of capitalism. Her current research asks how hierarchies of gender, race, and class in the United States are reflected in people’s reliance on different sources of income. Hero’s dissertation explores how the distribution of work and resources within families both reproduces and challenges gender and class inequality. She works extensively with publically available survey data and enjoys helping others do the same through her position as a Senior Data Science Fellow at UC Berkeley’s DLab.    

Before starting her PhD, Hero worked as a research assistant at UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in Economics from Wellesley College.