Kirsten Cornelson

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Kirsten Cornelson is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. She received her B.A. from Mount Allison University in 2007, her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 2008, and her Ph.D from the University of Toronto in 2017. Prior to receiving her Ph.D, she worked as an economist at the Royal Bank of Canada. Her research focuses on the role of social interactions in perpetuating inequality by race and gender; she also does work on the economics of the family, and on immigration.