Sonia Planson (PhD 2023)
Area(s) of Interest
Immigration, Race, Ethnicity; Citizenship and Identity; Culture; Education
Biography
Sonia received a dual PhD from Northwestern and Sciences Po Paris in 2023, and is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Broadly, her research interests lie at the intersection of culture, race, and immigration, and include legal and cultural citizenships. In her current research, she studies cultural practices and race in transnational comparison. Her dissertation, "Racialized Assimilationism and the Dilemmas of Cultural Transmission," investigated immigrant families' experiences with cultural transmission and pressures to assimilate in Chicago and Paris. Her research on race and cultural capital has appeared in Sociology of Education, and is forthcoming in Poetics. In former work, she studied French citizenship law and older immigrants' naturalization practices.
Publications
Planson, Sonia. Forthcoming. “Considering Genres in Gendered and Racialized Cultural Capital.” Poetics.
Planson, Sonia. 2023. “Race, Cultural Capital, and School Achievement in Race-Blind France.” Sociology of Education 96(1):19–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380407221139220
Planson, Sonia. “‘You Should Put Your Past Behind:’ How Immigrant Families Experience Racialized Assimilationism.” (to be submitted)
Planson, Sonia. “Late Naturalizations.” (in progress)