Megan Tobias Neely
Megan Tobias Neely is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studies workplace and economic inequality through the lens of gender, race, and social class. Her current research investigates how social inequality influences access to capital in some of the wealthiest industries in the United States, including the hedge fund, venture capital, technology startup, and artificial intelligence spaces. Her recent book, Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (2022, University of California Press), presents an insider’s look at the notoriously rich, powerful, and secretive U.S. hedge fund industry. Hedged Out won the 2023 Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Her first book, with Ken-Hou Lin, Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance (2020, Oxford University Press), demonstrates why widening inequality in the United States is inextricably tied to the rise of big finance. Her work has also been published in the Annual Review of Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology Compass, and Social Currents.