News

Sociology honors undergraduate student Sangeun Shawn Kim has received the 2021 Bodek Award for his honors thesis from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Megan N. Reed has published "Reproductive transitions and women’s status in Indian households," with Population Studies.

Wendy Roth was cited in a New York Times Op-ed entitled, "America’s Brutal Racial History Is Written All Over Our Genes." The article discusses the relationship between genetic testing services, identity, and perceptions of race in the US.

Liz Jacobs accepts Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University's McCourt School for Public Policy in the Massive Data Institute and Institute for the Study of International Migration.

Lauren Harris has been announced as a recipient of a School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Daniel Aldana Cohen - April 2021 update

Nora 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.

Y. Mertehikian award - April 2021

Marcus T. Wright (Sociology staff and PennGSE Doctoral student) analyzes academic messaging to expose universities' blind spots in regard to communicating with first-generation students in his recent interview with Omnia.

Penn Sociology congratulates joint Demography and Sociology doctoral student Rebecca Schut for being honored as a 2021 Dean's Scholar.