Professor Baluran’s research aims to theoretically unpack and empirically analyze how racialization and racism differentially harm marginalized communities. He utilizes a variety of methods, from formal demography to in-depth interviews, to uncover mechanisms that reproduce racial inequality across various domains of social life, from criminal legal contact to health. He currently focuses on three streams of research: (1) race and criminal legal outcomes; (2) the health impacts of racialization and racism; and (3) the intersection of racialization, criminal legal contact and health. His work has been published in Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The British Journal of Criminology, Population Research and Policy Review, among others.