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August 13, 2018

Chelsea Wahl has published an article in Qualitative Sociology. The paper is titled “Almost Like a Real Band: Navigating a Gendered Jazz Art World” and it is co-authored with Stephen Ellingson at Hamilton College.

August 13, 2018

Megan Reed, Ph.D. student, recently wrote a blog for CASI (The Center for the Advanced Study of India) about her acclimation to Delhi as well as continuing her research. You can read Megan's post here.

August 13, 2018

Sarah Adeyinka-Skold and Dorothy E. Roberts recently published their article "Learning About Race: The Lived Experiences of Interracially Married U.S.-born White and European Immigrant Women in the 1930s" with Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. The article examines race-learning among US- and European-born white women married to Black American men in Chicago in the late 1930s.

August 8, 2018

Steve Viscelli has done extensive research on the trucking industry, including publishing The Big Rig in 2016. Steve was recently interviewed by American Trucker Magazine on The Real Deal.

August 8, 2018

Pilar Gonalons-Pons' research on married couples and divorce rates was quoted in The New York Times. Her research was quoted as: certain gender attitudes, at least about women, seem to be slowly catching up with people’s behavior. Research has found that among more recent marriages, women with higher earnings are no longer more likely to divorce.

August 8, 2018

Raka Sen, Ph.D. student, discusses salinity issues in Gabura in the Dhaka Tribune. You can read the feature here.

July 25, 2018

Postdoctoral researcher Peter Catron has been accepted a position with the University of Washington's Department of Sociology as well as being named a research affiliate with their Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE).

July 13, 2018

Pilar Gonalons-Pons' work on married couples, their earnings, and rates of divorce has been quoted in The New York Times. You can read the full article here.

July 10, 2018

Phoebe Ho, a Ph.D. candidate, and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng's ('14) study comparing teacher perceptions of parental involvement and how this varies by family race, ethnicity, and nativity, recently published in Social Science Research was highlighted in Education Week. The full text can be read here.

July 9, 2018

Tyler Baldor, Ph.D. candidate, spoke with Behavioral Scientist regarding his research on sexually integrated Philadelphia gay bars to explain how non-minorities can frequent minority spaces without disrupting them. You can read the full article here.

July 2, 2018

Ross Koppel was recently interviewed by Bloomberg law to discuss electronic health records and the need to create good EHR systems.

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July 2, 2018

Melissa Wilde has edited a new issue of Social Inclusions entitled, Complex Religion: Intersections of Religion and Inequality (2018, Volume 6, Issue 2).

July 2, 2018
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) held its fourth biennial conference on June 21-23 in Washington, D.C. The conference theme was "OpenScience: Assumptions and Translation of Work and Family Research".  

 Nearly 400 participants from over 30 countries participated in 118 sessions along with a pre-conference workshop. Penn’s representation included Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Lauren Harris and three colleagues from the Wharton School. Jerry A. Jacobs served as Executive Officer of WFRN and was prominently featured on the program.  Jacobs’ received a “Leaders and Legacies Award” for his service to the work and family research community.   
June 25, 2018

Annette Lareau, Amabda Barrett Cox, and Elliot B. Weininger (Professor Sociology, SUNY College at Brockport) recently discussed their research on an affluent school district, and the impact that parents within such communities may have on the schools, in The New York Times.

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June 13, 2018

Haley Pilgrim, Ph.D. student, spoke with Knowledge@Wharton High School on color-blindness and unconscious bias in the workplace. Read the full article here.

 

June 13, 2018

David K. Kirui, Ph.D. student, has co-published Does generational status matter in college? Expectations and academic performance among second-generation college students in the US with Grace Kao (Professor of Sociology, Yale University) in a special issue of Ethnicities on educational inequality.

June 13, 2018

Emily Hannum has been announced as Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her appointment will begin July 1, 2018. In this role Emily will oversee the School’s social sciences departments (Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History and Sociology of Science, Political Science, and Sociology) and research centers.

June 11, 2018

Courtney Boen has been named the recipient of Best Dissertation Award by American Sociological Association's Sociology of Mental Health section, for her dissertation entitled “Inequality ‘Under the Skin’: Stress & the Biodemography of Racial Health Disparities Across the Life Course.”.

June 11, 2018

Last month Emilio Parrado spoke on WBUR's On Point Podcast, discussing the decline in US birth rates and international migration. You can listen to the podcast here.

May 21, 2018

Angela Simms, Ph.D. Candidate, has accepted Penn's School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Simms has also received an honorable mention for the Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellowship, which is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.

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