Fabiana Silva | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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Fabiana Silva

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Fabiana Silva is an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School and a Faculty Associate at the Center for Inequality Dynamics. Her research examines determinants of ethnoracial inequalities and the effectiveness of framing efforts to build public support for dismantling these inequalities. It addresses three broad areas: employer discrimination, external ethnoracial classifications (how people classify others), and social movement framing. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and her A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University. To learn more, please visit her personal website.

Current research

  • Gender Race and Ethnicity
  • Human Rights
  • Labor Market
  • Immigration