Hunter Wade York

About Me

I am a fifth-year PhD student at Princeton University in the Department of Sociology and the Office of Population Research, and my research interests revolve around social stratification, work, and organizations. I will be on the academic job market in fall of 2025. Prior to Princeton, I received an MPH in Global Health from the University of Washington and an AB in Human Evolutionary Biology and Music from Harvard. Though my academic trajectory has taken many turns, I like to think that is part of my chops as a sociologist.

Published Works

    York, H., Song, X., & Xie, Y. (2025, January). Gradationalism Revisited: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Along Axes of Occupational Characteristics. American Journal of Sociology, Forthcoming. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/733122

Works in Progress

  • Climbing the Ladder or Falling Behind? Gender and Race Diversity in Work Teams and Its Influence on Career Trajectories in the Federal Workforce: In the second chapter of my dissertation, I use a novel dataset of federal worker human resource records combined with information on team composition to determine the effect of the demographics of one's peers on promotion outcomes.