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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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There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University 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
Planning and Control of Land Development
By: Lance Freeman, With Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press.
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.
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.
