Philanthropy Lab
Taught by David Rigby
Department of Sociology

David Rigby is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses on Politics, Immigration, Development and Inequality, Statistics, and Research Methods. He received his PhD in sociology from UNC Chapel Hill. David uses quantitative, archival, and computational methods to conduct research into the forces that shape racial inequality—from immigration, to political change, and vulnerability to collective and state violence. He is currently excited about a research project using computational linguistics to measure changes in policy debates within the US Congress.

Before pursuing graduate school, David worked in North Carolina on issues impacting local migrant communities, from wage theft, to local immigration enforcement, restrictive ordinances, housing exploitation, and service provision. He is excited to have the opportunity to get students involved in pursuing local change on pressing social issues in St. Louis.