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Mosi Adesina Ifatunji** is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for African American Research and a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center. During his first three years at Chapel Hill, Dr. Ifatunji also taught at the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. His primary research and teaching interests are in racial and ethnic theory and the methods used to study inequality and stratification. He is particularly interested in theorizing how non-physical characteristics (i.e., language, religion and nationality) contribute to racial classification and stratification. He is pursuing these interests using a range of mostly quantitative methods, including large-scale surveys, advanced statistics, linked administrative data, social experiments, and historiography. He has recived awards from and been supported by the American Sociological Association, the National Institutes of Health and the Program for Research on Black Americans. His work has been published in Sociological Forum, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and the Du Bois Review.

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