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Kyla Thomas
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  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
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  • Kyla Thomas
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  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Joanne Yoong
  • Codi Young
  • Barbara Yuen
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Pawan Ahuja
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Yizhou Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Sayra Escobar
  • Brian Finch
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Hunter Green
  • Chiara Grigoletti
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Shao Kanghong
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Kathleen Mullen
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Giacomo Rebellato
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Juan Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Tanya Sethi
  • Donna Spruijt-Metz
  • Arthur Stone
  • Natalie Theys
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Michele Warnock
  • Bas Weerman
  • Cheng K Fred Wen
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • 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 a 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.  She is also the director of LABarometer, a quarterly survey designed to track social and economic conditions in Los Angeles County with a focus on four key issues: livability, mobility, sustainability, and affordability.
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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