Keitaro Okura

Research Interests: Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Education; Political Sociology; Culture; Inequality; Experimental Methods

Keitaro Okura is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Yale University and currently a visiting student at Harvard. His research examines the symbolic boundaries of national and ethnoracial group membership and their social consequences in the United States, drawing primarily on survey data and experiments. His work is published or forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education, and International Migration Review, and has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association and the American Educational Research Association. His research has been supported by the Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Rapoport Family Foundation, and the ASA’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.