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Sarah Iverson's work is motivated by novel and enduring questions in sociology: How do people create collective meaning in institutional settings? How do these meanings inform action? What role does meaning making play in facilitating or inhibiting racial inequality?

Motivated by these questions, she has studied a range of sites and populations, including an ethnoracially diverse community health organization, the multiracial population in the U.S., and a bottle and can redemption center frequented by unhoused workers. By investigating taken-for-granted assumptions about the nature of race, work, and identity, her work aims to strengthen institutional efforts to combat inequality.

Ongoing research projects study: 1) race in the college essay production process after the federal ban on race-conscious admissions, 2) how organizations make decisions around sustainable procurement, including social criteria (e.g., purchasing from minority-owned businesses), and 3) how officials at the U.S. census produced racial meanings over time. She is also working on her first book project, Reckoning with Race which ethnographically examines how a community health organization conceptualized race across its various domains of work.

Her research is published in Genealogy, Demography, and the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, with funding from the Antiracist Research and Policy Center, Russell Sage Foundation, Center for Environment, Equity, and Community (CECE), National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 2022, she received the Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences. Iverson previously worked as a Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children, a research and advocacy think tank.