Rachel Sherman

Rachel Sherman is Professor of Sociology at NSSR and Eugene Lang College, studying and teaching courses on class, culture, labor, and social movements. She uses qualitative methods to explore how unequal social relations are reproduced, legitimated, and contested, and to look at how these processes are embedded in moral vocabularies and individual identities. Her books include Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels (California, 2007) and Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Princeton, 2017). As a 2018-20 Carnegie Fellow, she is researching social movements that challenge dominant discourses of meritocracy and class entitlement.