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My focus is on understanding and addressing the way certainty drives our tendency to judge harshly, demonize, and dismiss people who disagree. We often think of this as a problem of political polarization, a lack of civil discourse, or a lack of viewpoint diversity. Where those are actually the downstream effects of a fundamental problem in how we think.
In addition to my role as an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, I am the co-director of the Mill Institute at UATX. At the Mill Institute, we work with educators to create classroom spaces where they can challenge settled thinking and explore contentious topics together.
My work includes:
Research Interests
Viewpoint diversity
Political polarization
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Teaching
SOC 230, Sociology of Political Polarization: Bigots and Snowflakes
SOC 163, Social Problems
SOC 280, Introduction to Social Statistics
Office Address
326 Lincoln Hall MC-454
702 South Wright Street
Office Phone
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Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education
Redstone, I. & Villasenor, J., 2020, Oxford University Press. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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The declining earnings gap between young women and men in the United States, 1979–2018
Iceland, J. & Redstone, I., Nov 2020, In: Social Science Research. 92, 102479.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Differential Returns? Neighborhood Attainment among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White New Legal Permanent Residents
Akresh, I. R. & Frank, R., Sep 2018, In: City and Community. 17, 3, p. 788-807 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?
Frank, R., Akresh, I. R. & Lu, B., Jan 1 2018, Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective. Taylor and Francis, p. 780-787 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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How Do Latino Immigrants Fit into the Racial Order?
Frank, R., Akresh, I. R. & Lu, B., May 15 2018, Inequality in the 21st Century: A Reader. Grusky, D. B. & Hill, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 329-335Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter