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August 2, 2019

Ashleigh Cartwright, Ph.D. student, recently spoke with Penn Today about her experiences growing up in an overall context of minorities in majority spaces. You can read Ashleigh's interview here.

August 2, 2019

Wendy D. Roth recently gave an interview ith BYUradio on DNA Tests: Fact vs. Fiction.

August 2, 2019

Daniel Aldana Cohen recently wrote for The Nation an article entitled, "Eco-Apartheid is Real."

August 2, 2019

Benjamin Shestakofsky's article, “Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work,” has been awarded the 2019 W. Richard Scott Award for Distinguished Scholarship by the ASA’s Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work

July 30, 2019

Daniel Aldana Cohen gave part to a VICE interview discussing climate changes and inequality that potentially occur when disasters strike. You can read the full article here.

July 30, 2019
Annette Lareau’s co-authored article in City and Community with Michael Bader (a former Penn post-doc) and Shani Evans (a recent graduate) was featured in ASA Member News and Notes. It is entitled, “Talk on the Playground: The Neighborhood Context of School Choice.” 
July 30, 2019

Wendy D. Roth's work on race has been mentioned in this recent New York Times article, How White Nationalists See What They Want to See in DNA Tests.

July 11, 2019

Irma Elo and Samuel Preston's research on life expectancy and non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. featured in Penn Today.

July 9, 2019

Raka Sen, graduate student, has been named one of 2019 #ResearchforChange Grant recipients. With this award, Raka will continue her fieldwork in Sundarban villages in Bangladesh and then eventually transcribe and code her research. 

July 9, 2019

Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kevin Ummel published Follow the Carbon: The Case for Neighborhood-Level Carbon Footprints, a policy digest with Penn's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

July 9, 2019

Julia E. Szymczak, Ph.D. '13, recently spoke with Penn Today about her sociological approach to medical sociology, including antibiotic resistance. You can read the full piece here. 

June 28, 2019

Michel Guillot spoke with Penn Today recently on second-generation immigrants and mortality. You can read the full Q&A here.

June 24, 2019

Elizabeth Jacobs, Ph.D. Candidate, has published her article "Pathways to Permanence: Legal Status Transitions as a Key Mechanism in Skilled Migrant Selection and Settlement" with Frontiers.

June 24, 2019

Jason Schnittker recently spoke with Kaiser Health News about older Americans and how they rate their health. This interview was posted with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and can be read in full here. 

June 13, 2019

Courtney Boen was recently quoted by Penn Today in an article that focused on the role that social determinants, socioeconomics, and racism play in maternal mortality.

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June 12, 2019

Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Ph.D. student, will receive the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) for his paper: "From Circumstance to Company: Landlord Context and Behaviors towards Tenants." The Award will be presented at the SSSP award ceremony in New York, August 10.

June 11, 2019

Ph.D. candidate Nora Gross has been awarded the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance for her dissertation project: "Bullets, Books, and Brotherhood: An Ethnography of High School Life in the Context of Urban American Gun Violence." The fellowship will offer partial funding for the dissertation writing year, 2019-2020.

June 11, 2019

Pilar Gonalons-Pons joined six top University of Pennsylvania health policy experts and members of the Penn class of 1969 a couple weeks ago on a panel with the Leonard Davis Institute. Gonalons-Pons gave insight regarding health risks faced by people who become caregivers for home-bound family members and friends requiring long-term care. You can read more about the event here. 

June 10, 2019

Peter Francis Harvey, Ph.D. candidate, will receive the 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA’s Children and Youth section for his paper, "Not So Easy: Lessons in Body Management in an Elite Elementary School."

June 3, 2019

Haley Pilgrim has been elected to a two year term as the graduate representative for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association board. She will be charged with advocating and representing graduate students across the association.