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Ross Koppel quoted in Fortune article discussing the oversight of electronic health records
Ross Koppel was recently quote in a Fortune article that discusses regulation efforts on electronic health records, and how insufficient oversight may put patients at risk.Pilar Gonalons-Pons Recieves Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Award
Pilar Gonalons-Pons has been awarded the Russel Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Award for 2020-2021. She will be spending the year in New York City.Tukufu Zuberi's new Africa Galleries exhibit featured in Philadelphia Magazine and additional media outlets
Tukufu Zuberi's new Africa Galleries exhibit was recently featured in Philadelphia Magazine,Daniel Aldana Cohen co-authors new book - A Planet to Win: Why we Need a Green New Deal
Daniel Aldana Cohen's co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a GXi Song co-authors article in American Sociological Review on Inter- and Intragenerational Income Mobility
Xi Song recently co-authored an article in American Sociological Review discussing the inter- and intragenerational aspects of income mobilty.Wendy Roth interviewed in Wall Street Journal to discuss consumer DNA tests
Wendy Roth was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal to provide insight on consumer DNA tests; the article discusses the complexities that have arisen from the growing popularity of these products.Steve Viscelli's research featured in Frontline documentary: In the Age of AI
Steve Viscelli's research on the trucking industry was featured in the PBS Frontline documentary In the Age of AI.David Grazian discusses Coworking Spaces with Penn Today
In Penn Today, David Grazian discusses his research on coworking spaces, and the necessity of businesses having a physical space.Ross Koppel Discusses Ransomware on PBS NewsHour
Ross Koppel was recently featured on PBS NewsHour discussing the connection between ransomware, data breaches and fatal heart attacks.Ross Koppel Discusses AI and Healthcare with Penn Today
Ross Koppel was recently featured in a Penn Today article discussing the impact of artifical intelligence on health care.
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Faculty Bookshelf
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.
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.
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.
Fast Food, Fast Talk
Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life
Leidner's fascinating report from the frontlines of two major American corporations uncovers the methods and consequences of regulating workers' language, looks, attitudes, ideas, and demeanor.
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
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.
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.
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