Recent Hires The following have joined the Maxwell full-time faculty:

SEAN J. DRAKE is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a senior research associate in the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research. His research focuses on institutional mechanisms of segregation and inequality that disproportionately affect students of color and lower-income students. Drake previously served on the faculty at New York University. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Irvine, in 2017.

MARC A. GARCIA, assistant professor of sociology, researches health disparities in the United States and Mexico with a focus on physical and cognitive health disparities among older diverse and immigrant adults and longevity and mortality outcomes among older Latinx subgroups. Garcia was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin in 2015.