He earned a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York, and was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research from January, 2006 – July, 2007, where he collaborated on Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project. Professor Domina’s teaching and research focus on the role of educational policies in producing and mitigating social inequalities. His research has investigated the intergenerational consequences of college access programs, explored the ways in which higher education admissions and financial aid policies can operate as high school reform programs, and considered the consequences that brain drain migration has had for American social and economic geography.