Researcher and Personnel Bios

Laurence Ralph

Laurence Ralph is a PhD student in the department of anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research interests include informal economies, youth gangs, labor, and cultural expression. In his capacity as a graduate research assistant for Professor Cathy Cohen’s Black Youth Project, Laurence conducted interviews with African American males across the Midwest U.S., transcribed interviews, and engaged in content and discourse analysis of these interviews.