#  Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs 

Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University. 

Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2020).

Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University (2019-2021).

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Cultural and cognitive causes of the disconnect between meritocratic perception and unequal reality--and explores its political consequences.

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