Mo Torres is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. His research and teaching interests are in political economy, urban sociology, inequality, and the sociology of race and racism. His current book project uses mixed and historical methods to explore the politics of post-industrial decline and urban austerity in Michigan from the 1970s to the present. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard in 2023. While at Harvard, he was a Stone Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Doctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance, Urban Fellow in the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and a Resident Tutor in Currier House. CV