Florencia Torche
FAS Sociology
ft237@nyu.edu
Florencia Torche joins the Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.A. in Sociology at the Universidad Catolica de Chile (1996) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia University (2000, 2004). Currently, she is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality at Columbia University, and previously, she taught at Queens College, CUNY.
Dr. Torche researches inequality in the educational, occupational and wealth spheres using an international comparative perspective. She has published in the American Sociological Review, Sociology of Education and Poetics (forthcoming), among other leading journals. She has also published numerous book chapters, including "Wealth Distribution in Latin America" in the volume Personal Assets from a Global Perspective (ed: WIDER-UN). She has been the principal investigator of national social mobility surveys in Chile and Mexico and her research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the ESRU Foundation and the Ford Foundation.