Patrick Ishizuka

Patrick Ishizuka

Assistant Professor of Sociology
research interests:
  • Social Inequality
  • Gender
  • Work
  • Families

contact info:

  • Pronouns: He/Him/His
  • Email: ishizuka@wustl.edu
  • Phone: +1 (314) 935-5790
  • Office: Seigle Hall, Suite 213

office hours:

  • By appointment

mailing address:

  • Washington University
    MSC 1112-228-04
    One Brookings Drive
    St. Louis, MO 63130

Professor Ishizuka’s research focuses on social inequality at the intersection of work and family.

Patrick Ishizuka uses quantitative and experimental methods to understand the causes of gender and socioeconomic inequality in workplaces and in family life. His recent projects analyze why the “gender revolution” in housework has stalled in the United States, the persistence of a marriage penalty for female breadwinners among cohabiting couples, and contemporary cultural norms regarding how adults evaluate different parenting responses to LGBTQ+ adolescents. 

His research has been published in Demography, Social Forces, and Social Science Research and featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, and the BBC. Ishizuka’s work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Mathematica Policy Research, and Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. 

Ishizuka received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2016, and previously was the Frank H.T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell Population Center at Cornell University.