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Marshall Jean (he/him) is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Sociology in MAPSS. A native of Louisiana, Professor Jean has taught in a public high school in France, and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, data science, and education policy. He is an alumnus of the MAPSS program (2007), the UChicago Sociology PhD program (2016), and was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He was a UChicago Center for Teaching and Learning Pedagogy Fellow in 2023.   

Professor Jean specializes in research related to education, especially as it relates to social inequality. He also has interests in the sociological analysis of organizations, crime and violence, health care, and religion. He currently teaches Sociology of Education, Economic Sociology, and Intermediate Regression and Data Science. His research has included studies on the effects of ability grouping and tracking in schools on student learning behaviors, the effects of student mobility on academic outcomes, and racial discrimination in housing appraisals.  He is a quantitative specialist, but also has experience conducting qualitative research. He supports MAPSS students studying sociology, as well as those in Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis (QMSA) and the Education and Society (EDSO) graduate certificate program.   

You can find a research brief based on Professor Jean's recent work on discrimination in housing appraisals here.