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Daniel Aldana Cohen - April 2021 update
Daniel Aldana Cohen led the research on a new report, "A Green NNora M. Gross (Ph.D., 2020) has been named the 2021 recipient of The Jolley Bruce Christman and Steven S. Goldberg Annual Award for Best Dissertation in Urban Education through Penn GSE.
Nora M. Gross (Ph.D., 2020) has been named the 2021 recipient of The Jolley Bruce Christman and Steven S.Y. Mertehikian award - April 2021
Yasmin Mertehikian's paper “The Place of Nonheterosexual Women in Sexual and Reproductive Public Health Policies in the City of Buenos Aires,” is a co-winner of the 2021 Nancy M.Penn Sociology congratulates joint Demography and Sociology doctoral student Rebecca Schut for being honored as a 2021 Dean's Scholar.
Penn Sociology congratulates joint Demography and Sociology doctoral student Rebecca Schut for being honored as a 20Angie N. Ocampo accepts positions at University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University
Angie N. Ocampo, Ph.D. candidate, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.J. Jacobs & A. Dunatchik update, April 2021
Jerry Jacobs and Allison Dunatchik were featured in aC. Boen Stress & Health: Tip of the iceberg: Measuring racial discrimination in studies of health, March 2021
Courtney Boen has a new publication in Stress & Health with Adolfo G.Dylan Farrell-Bryan was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG funded through the National Science Foundation)
Dylan Farrell-Bryan was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG funded through the National Science Foundation) for her ethnographic research "Deciding to Deport: Judges, Decision-MBenjamin Shestakofsky’s co-authored article on the sociology of AI published in Socius
Benjamin Shestakofsky’s co-authored article, “Toward a Sociology of Artificial Intelligence: A Call
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Faculty Bookshelf
On the Make
The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
David Grazian’s riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
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.
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.
Putting Poor People to Work
How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor
by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, Jerry Jacobs
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.
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.
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.