Erin Ann Cech
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director Academic Program, Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
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Dr. Cech’s research examines how inequality is reproduced through processes that are built into seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices. She uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine inequality in STEM professions; she examines how cultural definitions of “good work” and “good workers” can anchor inequality in the workforce; and she studies how cultural understandings of the extent and origin of inequality help to uphold unequal social structures.
- Ma, Guizhen, Cheruvelil, Kendra Spence, Montgomery, Georgina M., Erin Ann Cech, Settles, Isis, Douglas, Hannah M.. 2025. Racial differences in job attitudes of early-career academics: the experiences of Asian Americans in higher education. Higher Education
- Erin Ann Cech, Cynthia J. Finelli. 2024. Learning to prioritize the public good: Does training in classes, workplaces, and professional societies shape engineers' understanding of their public welfare responsibilities?. Journal of Engineering Education 113(2):407-438.
- Hiltner, Sofia, Erin Ann Cech. 2024. The View from Above and Below: Subjective Mobility and Explanations of Class, Race, and Gender Inequality. Social Forces 103(2):449-474.
- Hannah M. Douglas, Isis H. Settles, Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Georgina M. Montgomery, Kevin C. Elliott, Erin Ann Cech, Tangier M. Davis, Guizhen Ma, Arika K. Hawkins, Lexi R. Nadolsky. 2024. The Importance of Inclusive Climate Within the Research Group, Department, and Profession for Marginalized Science Scholars' Career Outcomes. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education
- Cech, Erin Ann, Seron, Carroll , Silbey, Susan , Rubineau, Brian . 2019. "I am Not a Feminist, but. . .": Hegemony of a Meritocratic Ideology and the Limits of Critique Among Women in Engineering. Work and Occupations
- Cech, Erin Ann, Smith, Jessi L, Metz, Anneke . 2019. Cultural Processes of Ethnoracial Disadvantage among Native American College Students. Social Forces
- Cech, Erin Ann, Rothwell, William R. 2019. LGBT Workplace Inequality in the Federal Workforce: Intersectional Processes, Organizational Contexts, and Turnover Considerations. ILR Review :0019793919843508.
- Cech, Erin Ann, Slaton, Amy E, Riley, Donna M. 2019. Yearning, Learning, and Earning: The Gritty Ontologies of American Engineering Education. STEM of Desire :319-340.
- Cech, Erin Ann, Blair-Loy, Mary . 2019. The changing career trajectories of new parents in STEM. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(10):4182-4187.
- Cech, Erin Ann, Blair-Loy, Mary , Rogers, Laura E. 2018. Recognizing chilliness: How schemas of inequality shape views of culture and climate in work environments. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6(1):125-160.