{"id":11589,"date":"2021-06-29T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/?post_type=profile&p=11589"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:08:32","slug":"jonathan-mijs","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/profile\/jonathan-mijs\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Mijs"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Professor Mijs is on sabbatical leave through August 2026**<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Mijs (Ph.D. Harvard University) is a scholar of social inequality. His work centers on how people form their beliefs about inequality and what leads them to change their views. It builds on a broad methodological repertoire, ranging from qualitative field work to longitudinal data analysis, computational sociology, original surveys, and experiments.<\/p>\n

He has published 35 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Social Forces<\/a>, <\/em>Social Problems<\/a>, Socio-Economic Review<\/a>, and the Annual Review of Sociology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr Mijs\u2019s scholarship is supported by over $2M in external funding from national and international organizations such as the Volkswagen Foundation<\/a>, European Commission<\/a>, and the Dutch Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is the recipient of the International Society for Justice Research Morton Deutsch Award<\/a>, International Sociological Association Alan C. Kerckhoff Award<\/a>, and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Early Career Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His\u00a0work has been featured in media outlets in half a dozen countries, including The Guardian<\/a>, The Washington Post<\/a>, El Pa\u00eds<\/a>, Valor<\/a> and De Volkskrant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr Mijs served as a subject matter expert for Amnesty International<\/a>, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development<\/a>, and the Governments of Canada and The Netherlands, and he was a technical consultant on the Hulu series Paradise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At BU, Dr Mijs teaches SO 391 Social Inequality in America<\/a>, SO 497 \/ SO 897 Understanding Meritocracy<\/a>, SO 201 Sociological Methods<\/a> and SO 702 Proseminar in Sociological Methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is available to supervise dissertations and student research projects. Please reach out by email or schedule an in-person or office hour visit using the Calendly link<\/a> provided below.<\/p>\n

Recent publications include:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mijs, Jonathan J.B. and Adaner Usmani. 2024.\u00a0\u201cHow Segregation Ruins Inference: A Sociological Simulation of the Inequality Equilibrium\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Social Forces\u00a0<\/em>103(1): 45-65<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mijs, Jonathan J.B. 2023.\u00a0\u201cLearning About Inequality in Unequal America: How Heterogeneity in College Shapes Students\u2019 Beliefs About Meritocracy and Racial Discrimination\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Research in Stratification and Social Mobility\u00a0<\/em>85: 1-13<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mijs, Jonathan J.B., Anna Dominique Herrera Huang and William Regan. 2023.\u00a0\u201cConfronting racism of omission: Experimental evidence of the impact of information addressing misperceptions about ethnic and racial inequality in the United States and the Netherlands\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Du Bois Review<\/em>: 1-23<\/p>\n

\u2013 Carbone, Luca and Jonathan J.B. Mijs. 2022.\u00a0\u201cSounds like meritocracy to my ears: exploring the link between inequality in popular music and personal culture\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Information, Communication and Society\u00a0<\/em>25(5): 707-25<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mijs, Jonathan J.B. and Elizabeth Roe. 2021.\u00a0\u201cIs America Coming Apart? Socioeconomic Segregation in Neighborhoods, Schools, Workplaces, and Social Networks, 1970 \u2013 2020\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0Sociology Compass\u00a0<\/em>15(6): 1-16<\/p>\n

Please visit Dr Mijs\u2019s Professional Website<\/a>\u00a0for more information and PDFs of his published research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18710,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18710"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11589\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}