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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
