Alexander Adames (pronounced uh-dahm-ehz) is a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Pre-doctoral fellow and received a master's in statistics from The Wharton School. He is a sociologist and social demographer who primarily examines the drivers and consequences of economic stratification within the United States. Broadly speaking, his work sits at the intersection of social stratification; the sociology of education; the sociology of race and ethnicity; and social psychology. More precisely, Alexander examines disparities in wealth and income between and within racial and educational groups. For more about him and his research, please see: https://aadames.com/