Kiara Nerenberg

Kiara Nerenberg is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research uses quantitative, qualitative, and spatial methods to understand how school choice and residential segregation shape educational opportunities and enrollment decision-making for students and their families.

Academic background

Kiara holds a bachelor’s degree (with honors) in sociology from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Previously, Kiara worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where she contributed to research on school closures, charter school policy, and teacher certification. She has also worked with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) to examine the causes and consequences of student mobility within and between the Baltimore City and Baltimore County school districts. In her spare time, Kiara enjoys Scrabble, sudoku, and satirical retellings of nineteenth-century romance novels. 

Research Interests: education; neighborhoods; poverty and inequality; residential segregation; social policy; spatial stratification; urban sociology 

Research Projects: Creating Moves to Opportunities (2019- ), How Parents House Kids (2017- ), EdShock (2017- ), Child Support (2017) 

Favorite Place to Go in Baltimore: Baltimore Book Festival 



 



 

Contact information

Office: Abel Wolman House
Email: kmnerenberg@jhu.edu
Lab: Poverty and Inequality Research Lab
Address: 3213 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218

Websites

Recent publications

Burdick-Will, Julia, Kiara M. Nerenberg, Jeffrey A. Grigg, & Faith Connolly. 2020. “Student mobility and violent crime exposure at Baltimore City public elementary schools.” American Educational Research Journal. Forthcoming. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831220963908.

Burdick-Will, Julia, Jeffrey A. Grigg, Kiara M. Nerenberg, and Faith Connolly. 2020. “Socially Structured Mobility Networks and School Segregation Dynamics: The Role of Emergent Consideration Sets.” American Sociological Review 85(4): 675-708. DOI: 10.1177/0003122420934739
Open access link: https://osf.io/es5dx/download.

Nerenberg, Kiara M. 2021. "Decoupled or doubled? Evaluating geospatial dispersion of student-resident displacement by school closure." Social Science Research 95, 102519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102519.