Alexandra Murphy is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University. Murphy’s research uses mixed methods to examine how poverty and inequality are experienced, structured, and reproduced across multiple domains of social life. One line of research investigates the causes and consequences of transportation insecurity. Another examines suburban poverty. Murphy is co-editor of The Urban Ethnography Reader. She is currently finishing her book, Where the Sidewalks End, an ethnography of the social organization of poverty in one suburb.