BIO

David Rigby is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Landscapes Lab. David’s research interests focus on understanding processes of racialization, the ways that social dynamics and institutions come to be informed by ideas about race, and the pathways through which historical forms of racial violence and social control shape institutions and cultures, impacting the contemporary distribution of risk, resources, and opportunity. David’s work uses quantitative, archival, spatial, and computational methods to gather data on historical forms of racial violence and control, to investigate the historical development of structural racism, and to understand how the racialization of local institutions patterns exposure to social and environmental stressors that aggregate into racial health disparities. David’s current projects include collaborations using varying archival, survey, and trace data sources to analyze how the historical and place-based racialization of legal and conventional practices and institutions continue to impact the organization of and access to public space, development of local labor markets, and health trajectories.