Research Interests: Race & Ethnic Relations; Immigration; Inequality & Stratification; Social Movements; Cultural Sociology

Mari Sanchez is a Doctoral Student in Sociology. Mari is broadly interested in how societies manage and make sense of growing ethnoracial diversity. Her research lies at the intersection of ethnoracial classification, knowledge production, and intra-minority politics. Her dissertation offers a comparative study of “non-white meta-categories” – superordinate categories that encapsulate various populations considered non-white – in the US and the UK. She interrogates how non-white meta categories, which were used in administrative spheres and radical movements in the US and UK over the last 50 years to manage ethnoracial diversity and seek ethnoracial rights, have been unsettled, challenged, and revised since the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Before graduate school, Mari worked 9 years in the advertising world, where she specialized in analyzing, understanding, and creating cultural narratives of diversity and inclusion.

Previous Degrees:
B.A. in Sociology (honors) and Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame (2010)