1 KYLA THOMAS Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall • Office 401D 635 Downey Way • Los Angeles, CA 90089
[email protected] • (213) 821-8923 EMPLOYMENT University of Southern California Associate Sociologist, Center for Economic and Social Research 2016 - present EDUCATION Princeton University Ph.D., Sociology 2016 Dissertation: “Hidden (Dis)Advantages of Class: How Cultural Signals of Class Shape U.S. Labor Market Outcomes” Committee: Paul DiMaggio (Chair), Viviana Zelizer, Devah Pager, Susan Fiske M.A., Sociology 2012 Comprehensive Exams: Sociology of Culture, Economic Sociology, Social Stratification University of California, Los Angeles B.A., Sociology and Communication Studies (Dual Major) 2008 College Honors, Departmental Honors in Sociology, Summa Cum Laude PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles *Authors contributed equally Thomas, Kyla. 2019. “When Disney Came to Broadway: Assessing the Impact of Corporatization in an Art World.” Poetics, 77: 101384. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101384. Finch, Brian, Kyla Thomas, and Audrey Beck. 2019. “The Great Recession and Adverse Birth Outcomes: Evidence from California.” Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 9: 100470. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100470. Finch, Brian, Audrey Beck*, D. Brian Burghart*, Richard Johnson*, David Klinger*, and Kyla Thomas*. 2019. “Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States (2000–2017): The Case of Fatal Encounters”. Open Health Data, 6(1): 1. DOI: 10.5334/ohd.30. Thomas, Kyla. 2018. “The Labor Market Value of Taste: An Experimental Study of Class Bias in U.S. Employment.” Sociological Science 5: 562-595. Updated January 2020 2 Thomas, Kyla. 2017. “Sounds of Disadvantage: Musical Taste and the Origins of Ethnic Difference.” Poetics 60: 29-47.