MSU Sociology welcomes Dr. Angelita Repetto

October 24, 2025

Angelita Repetto was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and moved to the United States at six months old with her parents. Growing up in the college town of Champaign, Illinois, and eventually attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an undergraduate student in Sociology at Illinois, Repetto learned about differential group outcomes and became interested in understanding how and why these differences emerge and persist. As a result of her undergraduate sociology empirical research, Repetto decided to attend graduate school to continue studying economic inequalities in the United States.  

  Repetto earned her Ph.D. in Sociology with a Designated Emphasis in Computational Social Science at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, titled “Examining the Economic Well-Being and Health of the Latinx Population in the United States: Race and Context,” included three empirical chapters examining different aspects of Latinx disparities in the United States. Specifically, Repetto’s doctoral work investigated how anti-Latino hate speech, local attitudes towards Latinos, and Latino spatial segregation were associated to economic and health outcomes among different Latinx populations. She was particularly interested in examining intra-ethnic differences in racialization and discrimination within the Latino population, which she now continues through her investigation of the Latinx population as a heterogeneous group. Her current research continues to examine how regional and national contexts influence differential outcomes between racialized groups.  

  Repetto joined MSU Sociology as an Assistant Professor in August 2025. She was extremely pleased to join the department as it is an excellent fit for her research interests regarding race and migration. Additionally, as Repetto completed her Sociology bachelor’s at a Big Ten Institution, she felt honored to return to the Big Ten as a faculty member. Repetto said, “this is a dream job for me.”   

  Outside of work, Repetto enjoys cycling, traveling, reading, cooking, and spending time with her two cats, Maggie and Rosie.