Assistant Professor
jlsola@unc.edu | Justin Sola‘s Website
Research Areas:gun ownership, trends in social research, the interaction of inequality with the criminal justice system
Justin Sola is joining UNC-Chapel Hill as an assistant professor with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Data Science and Society. He completed his Ph.D. in criminology, law, and society at the University of California, Irvine, emphasizing race and justice. Sola researches gun ownership, trends in social research, and the interaction of inequality with the criminal justice system. He uses preregistered experiments, longitudinal designs, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and machine learning to assess causal heterogeneity.