Annaliese Grant (she/they) joined as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNLV after earning her PhD at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She studies the mundane everyday aspects of classed family inequality from a feminist perspective using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her work broadly focuses on media use, responsibilities, and relationships among low-income families in the U.S. Her previous and ongoing work focuses on the relationship between parent-child closeness and child wellbeing, as well as the classed (and gendered) role of children's responsibilities in family life and in daily inequality. Her most recent research focuses on the classed dynamics of family media use. Using multiple methods - statistical analysis of nationally representative survey data, interviews, participant observation, and activity diaries of participants in low- and middle-income families, and discourse analysis – she investigates how low- and middle-income families use media differently, how the meaning they make out of media use varies, and how the “screen time” discourse is classed, gendered, and racialized. This work has been funded by the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant and the Institute for Research on Poverty Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Annaliese Grant's work has been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Children & Society, and Currents.