Category: Faculty
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Professor Becky Yang Hsu Appears on The Optimist Project with Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi sits down with sociologist Dr. Becky Yang Hsu to explore how different cultures define happiness—and why the solo pursuit of it might be too limiting. Dr. Hsu…
March 11, 2025
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Professor Brian McCabe Featured in the Associated Press on the Dream of Homeownership
Brian McCabe, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, said he frequently tells his students that “there are few things that all Americans agree on, but one of them is…
February 10, 2025
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Prof. Kristin Perkins Discusses Study on Household Changes and Black Children’s Education Attainment in Russell Sage Foundation Journal
The issue offers a systematic examination of the variation in the consequences of disruption in early life. The interview has been edited for length and.…
November 21, 2024
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Celebrating Professor Kato’s Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
We’re thrilled to announce this significant milestone for Professor Kato in the Sociology Department at Georgetown. Her dedication to impactful research and inspiring…
October 31, 2024
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Professor Brian McCabe’s new report on the Seattle Democracy Voucher Program
With the program’s fourth election cycle in the rearview mirror, Georgetown sociologist Brian McCabe and Jennifer Heerwig, a sociologist at Stony Brook University, have…
October 7, 2024
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Professor Brian McCabe interviewed for NPR’s “All Things Considered” on the federal housing voucher program
Housing vouchers are the main way the U.S. helps very low-income renters. But they're hard to use, so the federal housing agency is looking into giving people cash.…
September 16, 2024
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Prof. McCabe Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at HUD
After teaching about housing policy on the Hilltop for the last decade, Brian McCabe (SFS’02) is now leading housing policy development for the Biden Administration within the…
November 10, 2022
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Fighting for Food Justice: Sociology Professor Yuki Kato Researches Intersectional Effects of Gentrification in DC
Urban sociologist and assistant professor Yuki Kato, Ph.D., is working to bring awareness to issues related to urban agriculture in Washington, DC. An advocate for environmental…
March 3, 2022
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Two Sociology Professors Teach Course that Examines Impacts of COVID-19 on Society
Due to the vast and pervasive effects of COVID-19, two sociologists are offering a new course about the social impacts of pandemics. This fall, Katharine Donato, interim chair of…
September 1, 2020
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Prof. Hsu Tackles Question of Happiness in China
Professor Becky Hsu led a multi-institutional research project into happiness in China, which inspired her own book, Happiness in China: Family, Fate, and the Good Death,…
January 30, 2019