Background & research

About

Bio

Nancy Touré is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago with a concentration in Survey Research Methodology. Her work examines racial and ethnic inequality through survey design and organizational analysis. She has designed, fielded, weighted, and analyzed survey data for federal, academic, consulting, and nonprofit clients, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Spencer Foundation, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.

She holds an M.A. in Education (Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics and Assessment) from UIC, an M.A. in Sociology from UIC, an M.A. in Sociology from Northeastern University, and a B.A. in Geology from Bryn Mawr College. Her technical toolkit includes R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, Python, SQL, Qualtrics, Tableau, and Power BI.

Research Interests

  • Survey Research Methodology
  • Racial and Ethnic Inequality
  • Organizational Racialization
  • Public Opinion
  • Measurement Invariance
  • QuantCrit Methods
  • Health Disparities
  • Federal Workforce Analysis