Ricardo Lowe

Dr. Ricardo Henrique Lowe, Jr. is a postdoctoral scholar in Race and Public Policy at the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis (IUPRA) at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a demographer, quantitative sociologist, and data scientist with six years of industry experience working as a survey statistician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Census Bureau. His research focuses on racial politics in census taking, race and ethnic measurement in government statistics, and critical demography, with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Lowe joined IUPRA as a research associate in Fall of 2019 prior to his postdoctoral appointment in Fall 2023. He earned his MS in Applied Sociology and Social Statistics from Texas State University and his BA and PhD from the University of Texas at San Antonio in Sociology and Applied Demography, respectively.