Dr. Tracy L. Scott is an Associate Teaching Professor in Sociology at Emory University.

Dr. Scott received an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. From 2014 to 2020, she was Director of Emory’s Quality Enhancement Plan: The Nature of Evidence: How Do We Know?

Dr. Scott focuses her teaching on making connections between the evidence produced by social research and everyday life. Her goal is that students use this evidence to understand the world more critically, be more reflective in their actions, and make more informed choices in their own lives.

Dr. Scott’s current research project (Moonshot Astronauts and Their Families: Exploring Image vs Reality in the Early Space Era) brings together her own history as an early era “astronaut kid” (daughter of David R. Scott: Gemini 8, Apollo 9, and Commander of the Apollo 15 lunar landing) with her professional expertise as a sociologist.