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Courtney Boen and Atheendar Venkataramani Receive $250,000 in Funding for Project: "Impact of State Incarceration Policies on Racial Health Equity"
Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Atheendar Venkataramani, Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, were awarded $250,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Policies for Action: Public PolicyIrma Elo and Samuel Preston's Research Featured in Medical News Today
Irma Elo, Professor and Chair of Sociology, and Samuel Preston, Professor of Sociology, co-authored research that was featured in Medical News Today.Eileen Lake has been named the Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology
Dr. Eileen Lake, Professor of Nursing and Sociology has been named the Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology.Alex Hoppe receives the Herbert Blumer Award for article: "The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models"
Alex Hoppe received the Herbert Blumer Award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.Wendy Roth discusses the impact of DNA ancestry testing kits on the U.S. Census with NPR
Wendy Roth was recently interviewed - and her research was featured - in an NPR article discussing the impact that DNA ancenstry testing kits (particularly their affordability) has had on the U.S. Census.Melissa Wilde's book, Birth Control Battles, selected to be featured at ASA 2022
Melissa Wilde's book, Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion, has been selected to be featured in a Book Forum at the ASA Annual Meeting in 2022.Penn Sociology invites applicants for a tenured/tenure-track faculty position in the area of Asian American Studies
Sociology Tenured/Tenure-track Position in Asian American StudiesRegina Baker's paper on Ethno-Racial Inequalities in Poverty in the U.S published in Population Research and Policy Review
Regina Baker's paper, “The Enduring Significance of Ethno-Racial Inequalities in Poverty in the U.S., 1993–2017” was recently published in Population Research and Policy Review.Alex Hoppe's article accepted at Qualitative Sociology: "The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models."
Alex Hoppe's article, "The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models" has been accepted for publication in Qualitative Sociology.Benjamin Shestakofsky’s article “Making Platforms Work” wins 2021 Star-Nelkin Paper Award from American Sociological Association
Benjamin Shestakofsky’s co-authored article “Making Platforms Work: Relationship Labor and the Management of Publics” ha
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Faculty Bookshelf
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.
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.
Vatican II
A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history.
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
