Fabian Pfeffer has been honored with the 2019 Doris Entwisle Award for early career achievement in the field of sociology of education from the American Sociological Association.
Dr. Pfeffer investigates social inequality and its maintenance across time and generations. Current projects focus on wealth inequality and its consequences for the next generation, the institutional context of social mobility processes and educational inequality in the United States and other industrialized countries, and the transmission of inequality across multiple generations.