John D. Kincaid

I was born and raised in northern California, in Sacramento. As a first-generation college student trying to figure it out on my own, I have had the pleasure of attending and leaving (sometimes because I wanted to, and sometimes because they wanted me to) just about every community college within a 50-mile radius Sacramento. Luckily, after failing out of CSU San Diego, I took a sociology class at a local community college not too long after and was hooked. I decided that since I had been in school for a few years and didn’t have much to show for it, I would just double down and try to get a PhD (lofty ambitions). Surprisingly this actually worked and I earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California Davis in 2015.

My academic research interests are based on my own right-wing evangelical Christian upbringing and I’ve published articles on right-wing social movements. My other passion is helping other first-generation college students navigate their post-college life and careers. I’ve been working directly with undergrads to help them plan for graduate school, careers and generally life after college for the past ten plus years.