Elena Ayala-Hurtado
Elena Ayala-Hurtado is a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and recently graduated from Harvard University. She is a cultural sociologist studying issues of work and economic life, higher education, and young adulthood. Her research generally examines how people experience and respond to uncertainty. Her cross-national dissertation examined the experiences of young college graduates facing insecurity in spite of their high educational attainment in Spain and the United States. Her work has been published in Work and Occupations, Sociology of Education, British Journal of Sociology, and RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.