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Daniel Aldana Cohen - In These Times Podcast, May 2021
Hear Daniel Aldana Cohen be part of the fifth installment of season two of the OMNIA podcast series,Research by Hyunjoon Park and Penn State's Soo-yong Byun has been featured in NY Daily News's Test prep isn’t the answer: To make NYC’s selective high schools more diverse, it’ll take a much broader push.
Research by Hyunjoon Park and Penn State's Soo-yong Byun has been featured in NY Daily News'sAngie N. Ocampo Dr. Andy Binns Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life
Angie N. Ocampo has been awarded the Dr.Shaquilla T.S. Harrigan has been announced as one of recipients of the inaugural class of Presidential Ph.D. Fellows.
Shaquilla T.S. Harrigan has been announced as one of recipients of the inaugural class of Presidential Ph.D.Guobin Yang's 2021 Edited Book: Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics and Production
Guobin Yang's 2021 Edited Book: Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics and Production.Taylor Heath and Elena van Stee have been selected as two recipients of the 2020-2021 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
Taylor Heath and Elena van Stee have been selected as two recipients of the 2020-2021 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. The Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate StuPilar Gonalons-Pons has published, "Changes in Couples' Earnings Following Parenthood and Trends in Family Earnings Inequality," with Demography.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons has published, "Changes in Couples' EarninTukufu Zuberi is featured in “National Myths and Monuments,” the latest episode of OMNIA's podcast series In These Times: Black Lives and the Call for Justice.
Tukufu Zuberi is featured in “National Myths and Monuments,” the latest episode of OMNIA's podcast series In These
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Faculty Bookshelf
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles
Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Ph.D.
Sociologist Camille Zubrinsky Charles explores how modern racial attitudes shape and are shaped by the places in which people live.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
Um planeta a conquistar
A urgência de um Green New Deal
Brazilian Portuguese translation of A Planet to Win, with a new Preface by Raquel Rolnik.
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
Blue Chicago
The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences.
What would you do?
Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death.
In Defense of Disciplines
Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity.
Birth Control Battles
How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J.
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
