Chinyere O. Agbai

(CHEEN-yeh-reh AH-bye)

Chinyere Agbai is an Assistant Professor & Provost’s Early Career Scholar in the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research seeks to uncover the roots of the racial wealth gap in homeownership and explore their consequences for racial inequality in wealth and health. More broadly, her work is concerned with the linkages between urban inequality, the racial wealth gap, the social determinants of health, public policy, and structural racism.

Her work has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Program, and the NIH NICHD. It has received awards, including the Dorothy S. Thomas Student Paper Award from the Population Association of America. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University.