Charlie Pollard

Charlie (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student in sociology studying the nexus of bankruptcy, shame, and financial resilience. Her work explores the impact of stigma surrounding bankruptcy during financial crises (like the 2008 Great Recession) and its embodied experience of shame. Further, she explores how shame may or may not become a limiting factor of financial resilience, and how individuals exhibit resilient behavior in the face of shame following a bankruptcy filing. She is interested in broadening her research agenda to include bankruptcies related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the connection between debt and weathering, racial disparities in filings, and the gendered landscape of bankruptcy (namely, how social groups navigate emotional and financial labor through a gendered lens). 

She is inspired by a mixed methods approach, given that her work navigates the intersection of public, policy-driven, and critical sociology. She maintains competency in several methodological software programs including MAXQDA, R, and SPSS.

Charlie earned her M.A. in Applied Sociology and B.S. in Sociology, Political Science, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northern Arizona University. She enjoys teaching (through various modalities), going on walks, and gaining as many baking skills as possible. Some of her recent achievements include learning to brown butter and making lemon curd.

Newly elected Student Representative to the Council of the ASA Methodology Section. She will be working to demonstrate Arizona's strengths across this broad pillar of our field.