Department of Sociology

Keitaro Okura is the SRS Assistant Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. His research examines the social and symbolic boundaries of national and ethnoracial group membership in the United States. He works primarily with quantitative methods and frequently collects original descriptive and experimental survey data. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, and Sociology of Education and has received numerous awards from major professional associations. 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/NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.