Dr. Alon is the Weinberg Chair in Sociology of Stratification and Inequality at Tel Aviv University. She served as an advisor to the White House’s task force on affirmative action and diversity, led by Kamala Harris, the U.S. Vice President.

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Her primary research interests include social stratification and mobility, with a focus on the sociology of work and organizations, as well as the sociology of education. Her work focuses on unveiling the dynamics and historical processes underlying inequalities in the labor market and educational attainment, as well as the extent to which public policy helps narrow these inequalities. Alon’s perspective is interdisciplinary and comparative, considering processes and outcomes, institutional arrangements and social structures, psychological biases, as well as demographic and economic trends.

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Her research has received support from grants provided by the Spencer Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Texas Higher Educational Opportunity Project, Israel Science Foundation, Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, Yad Hanadiv Foundation, The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, and the TAU Center for AI and Data Science (TAD). She has served as a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Russell Sage Foundation, Princeton University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, New York University, and the AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po, Paris, France.