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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts profiled in New York Magazine
"The post-Roe era has made Roberts’s work grimly essential as both prophecy and cautionary tale." Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts is profiled in New York Magazine for her foundational work on reproductive jusOlivia Haynie C'24 and Justin Seward C'25, majoring in Sociology at Penn, will be presenting their Undergraduate Research Mentor project at the CURF Fall Research Expo
This summer, Olivia Haynie C’24 majoring in Sociology at Penn worked with another intended Sociology major, Justin Seward, C’25, on a Penn Undergraduate Research and Mentor project.Junhow Wei, a PhD graduate of Sociology, has recently become the Assistant Dean at Princeton University and published an article in the NACADA journal on stealth academic advising
Junhow Wei, a PhD graduate of the Sociology program, has recently become the Assistant Dean at Princeton University and has also published an article in thCourtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding Joe Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Drawing on her research on wealth and health, Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, offers insights into the health implications of Biden’s debt forgiveness plan.Rebecca Schut, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago and Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, recently published a working series paper
Rebecca Schut, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago andLance Freeman, Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, was recently published in the Lincoln Institute
Lance Freeman, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, was recently published by the Lincoln InElena van Stee, PhD student in Sociology, had her article, "Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis" published in Sociology Compass
Elena van Stee, PhD student in Sociology, had her article, "Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis" publisheTuğçe Ellialti-Köse, PhD graduate from the class of 2020, offered an Assistant Professor Position at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada
Tuğçe Ellialti-Köse, who received her PhD from Penn Sociology in 2020, has recently been offered a tenure-track position at the ran
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Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Workshop: Zohra Ansari-Thomas, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop
"Care Needs and Arrangements of Aging Immigrants in the United States"
Education and Inequality Works in Progress: Yezhen (David) Li, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Tenuous assimilation? Friendship network instability among immigrant adolescents
Faculty Bookshelf
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.
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
A pioneering and award-winning study of the innovative forms and multi-institutional dynamics of internet activism in China.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
A Planet to Win
Why We Need a Green New Deal
A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal.
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.
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.
