Tessa Huttenlocher is a comparative-historical sociologist interested in dynamics of inequality in organizational fields. Her dissertation project, titled “The Religious Origins of Educational Inequality: American Denominational Control of Higher Education in the Early 20th Century,” examines how the social inequalities embedded in the American religious field created durable patterns of inequality in the field of higher education.

Huttenlocher earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024.