With a PhD in Sociology from Iuperj, a sandwich doctorate from the University of Warwick, and a course in Quantitative Methods at Michigan, Ann Arbor, Celi Scalon is a sociology professor in the Department of Sociology at UFRJ. Her academic journey includes being a visiting scholar at Oxford University, UCLA, and the University of Coimbra. She also coordinates PATHS: Research Center on Social Stratification and Trajectories