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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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Upcoming Events
Medical Sociology Workshop: Beth Linker, Associate Professor Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Workshop
“Disability Futures and the Making of Modern Epidemics"
Education and Inequality Works in Progress: Autumn Brown, PhD Candidate in Human Development & Quantitative Methods, University of Pennsylvania
The impact of older sisters on children's developmental outcomes in Northern Ghana (discussion of paper-in-progress)
Faculty Bookshelf
Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials
By: Lance Freeman Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press
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
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.
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.
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.
