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Regina S. Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is collaborating on a New National Science Foundation Funded Grant
Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, will be collaborating on a new National Science Foundation funded grant.Regina S. Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, collaborating with J. Tom Mueller (PI) and Matthew Brooks on NIMHD Grant Project titled, "The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Mortality Disparities and Poverty”
Regina S. Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, is collaborating with J.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" publishe
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Faculty Bookshelf
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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 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.
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.
Gender Inequality at Work
This book addresses many of the dimensions of gender inequality at work, looking at a number of important topics including: pay equity; the impact of feminization on certain professions; and barrie
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, With an Update a Decade Later
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children.
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 Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Develops a performance theory of Red Guard factional violence and traces the ritual process of the transformation of a political generation over a period of forty years.