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Shani Adia Evans Accepts Position with Rice University
Shani Adia Evans, who graduated from UPenn in 2016 (with a joint degree in sociology and education), has accepted a position at Rice University beginning the fall semester.Elena van Stee Receives Laura Bassi Scholarship
Elena van Stee has been awarded a Laura Bassi Scholarship for her master’s thesis project, titled “Family SafetPilar Gonalons-Pons published a new article "Exit, voice and loyalty in the family: findings from a basic income experiment" in Socio-Economic Review.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons published a new article "Exit, voice and loyalty in the family: findings from a basic income experiment" in Socio-Economic Review.Guobin Yang published a new article “Online Lockdown Diaries as Endurance Art” in AI & Society.
Guobin Yang published a new article “Online Lockdown Diaries as Endurance ArtDamon Centola Book Publication, January 2021
Damon Centola's new book, CHANGE: How to Make Big Things HappeTukufu Zuberi Capital Riot Podcast, January 2021
Rioters breached the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.Elena van Stee Receives Turner-Schulman Graduate Research Fellowship
Elena van Stee received a Turner-Schulman Graduate Research Fellowship to fund her master’s thesis titled “Family Safety Nets: Understanding Race, Class, and Intergenerational Support Through the Lens of the Covid-19 PanRoss Koppel Named Distinguished Fellow by American College of Informatics
Ross Koppel named among six Distinguished Fellows of the American CollDorothy Roberts was a panelist for a discussion on Penn SAS's In These Times on an episode entitled, Exacerbating the Health Care Divide.
Dorothy Roberts was a panelist for a discussion on Penn SAS's In These Times on an episode entitled, ExacerJessica McCrory Calarco Update
Jessica McCrory Calarco received her doctorate from our department in 2012 before joining the Department of Sociology at Indiana University where she is an Associate Professor.
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Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
