Taylor B. Alarcon

Taylor B. Alarcon is a Ph.D. Student, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and Provost Diversity Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Broadly, he studies racial and economic inequality using quantitative and computational methods, with particular interests in urban mobility and movement; collective efficacy and social cohesion; crime, policing, and community safety; urban space and place; and technology and algorithms. At Columbia, he is a research affiliate at the Data & Racial Inequality Project, the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab, the New York City Reducing Inequality Network, and the OADI Research Collective on Policing, Surveillance, and Resistance.

Prior to Columbia, Taylor was an IRT Fellow, a research associate at the Just Data Lab at Princeton University and the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California, and a product design leader in the tech industry. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics and a minor in Philosophy from Brown University.

BA in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2017