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Kyla Thomas
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  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Victoria Yonter
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Benjamin
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Alexandria Braboy
  • Joan E. Broderick
  • Wandi Bruine De Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Sandy Chien
  • Amy Chitsazan
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Grace Do
  • Maribel Estrada
  • Sloan Fader
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Andre Gray
  • Tarush Gupta
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Arshia Hashemi
  • Urvashi Jain
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Abhishek Karmakar
  • Miles Kimball
  • Sara King
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Siah Lesher
  • Ying Liu
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kraig Ludensky
  • Grace Mak
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Marilyn Mendez
  • Michael Moldoff
  • David Newman
  • Bart Orriens
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Sarah Ritz
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Anya Samek
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Pam Tyler
  • Marieta Valev
  • Sarah Velasco
  • Tina Vuong
  • Diana Wang
  • Chelsea Watson
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Emily White
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Victoria Yonter
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro

Kyla Thomas

Associate Sociologist
Contact
VPD, Room 401D
213.821.8923
kylathom@usc.edu
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Curriculum Vitae
Biographical Sketch
Kyla Thomas is an Associate Sociologist at the Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.  She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and a B.A. in both sociology and communication studies from UCLA.  Broadly, her research interests include the sociology of culture, social stratification, economic sociology, and experimental methods. Currently, her work focuses on the cultural mechanisms through which social and economic inequalities are reproduced in institutions like the U.S. labor market.
Education
Ph.D. Sociology, Princeton University, 2016
B.A. Communication Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
B.A. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008
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