Book bans in U.S. schools and libraries during the 2021-2022 school year disproportionately targeted children’s books written by people of color, especially women of color, as concluded in a peer-reviewed study we published. They also tended to feature characters of color. In addition, we found book bans were more common in right-leaning counties that were […]
Isabelle Langrock
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Le Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (The Center for Research on Social Inequalities) at Sciences Po in Paris, France. Here, I work with Dr. Jen Schradie and study the different information environments of the US and France.
I received my Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2023. My Dissertation, “The Irony of Openness: Gender Inequality in Self-Governed Knowledge Systems” built a framework for investigating gender gaps across different forms of open knowledge production, including Wikipedia and Open Source Software. My work speaks to the inter-disciplinary domains of digital governance and organization, information environments, and social activism.