News

Nora M. Gross (Ph.D., 2020) has been named the 2021 recipient of The Jolley Bruce Christman and Steven S. Goldberg Annual Award for Best Dissertation in Urban Education through Penn GSE.

Y. Mertehikian award - April 2021

Marcus T. Wright (Sociology staff and PennGSE Doctoral student) analyzes academic messaging to expose universities' blind spots in regard to communicating with first-generation students in his recent interview with Omnia.

Penn Sociology congratulates joint Demography and Sociology doctoral student Rebecca Schut for being honored as a 2021 Dean's Scholar. 

Angie N. Ocampo accepts positions at University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University

J. Jacobs & A. Dunatchik update, April 2021

C. Boen Stress & Health: Tip of the iceberg: Measuring racial discrimination in studies of health, March 2021

Dylan Farrell-Bryan was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG funded through the National Science Foundation)

Benjamin Shestakofsky’s co-authored article on the sociology of AI published in Socius

Regina Baker and Irma T. Elo provided background information for Tradeoffs latest podcast, "How Will Biden’s Fix for Child Poverty Affect Kids’ Health?"