Spencer Allen
Sociology PhD Student at the University of Michigan
Spencer Allen (he/him) is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he is a social demography predoctoral fellow in the Population Studies Center. He is broadly interested in how social inequality engenders population health inequity. To that end, Spencer's current independent research investigates the role that local-level political polarization has shaped health disparities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. His other ongoing projects include work looking into the origins of consequences of social inequality more broadly in the COVID-19 pandemic, and survey methodology work comparing prospective and retrospective life history interviews in a longitudinal study of aging.Â
Before starting graduate school, Spencer received a B.A. in Sociology from Dartmouth College.
