Research Interests: Inequality, social determinants of health, social policy, labor, occupational health, LGBTQ health, gender identity, survey methods, quantitative methods

Siri Neerchal is a Doctoral Student in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. Siri’s research interests include inequality, labor, and social determinants of health (with a particular focus on LGBTQ health).

Siri was born and raised in Maryland and attended the University of Maryland as a Banneker/Key Scholar, graduating in 2021 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in History, with minors in Survey Methodology and Music Performance. As an undergraduate, Siri applied latent class analysis to measure gender attitudes in a multidimensional framework as a Leadership Alliance Fellow at Brown University. As a Joint Program in Survey Methodology Junior Fellow at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Siri assessed the potential of webscraped job postings to supplement survey data, built a text classifier for skill certifications, and modeled job requirement changes over time. After graduating and before starting at Harvard, Siri worked as a Research Fellow at Stanford Law School, performing social science & policy research on questions related to labor, disability, and healthcare law.

Previous Degrees:
B.S., Mathematics, magna cum laude, University of Maryland (2021)
B.A., History (with departmental honors), magna cum laude, University of Maryland (2021)