Category: Research
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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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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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2024-2025 Colloquia
The Georgetown University Department of Sociology is excited to announce our 2024-25 Research Colloquia. All colloquia are at 12:30 in Car Barn 427, and lunch will be provided.…
September 16, 2024
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2023-2024 Colloquia
The table below provides information on this year’s colloquium events: Past…
August 28, 2023
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Georgetown Features at the 2023 ASA Conference
Georgetown Sociology was well represented at the 2023 American Sociological Association meetings this August in Philadelphia! Faculty members were featured on presidential and…
August 28, 2023
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Prof. Hsu Published in SSM-Mental Health
Professor Becky Hsu and her colleague Roman Palitsky were recently published in the journal SSM – Mental Health for their work on Chinese grave sweeping as a method of…
May 7, 2023
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Prof. Perkins Research on the Geography of Gentrification Recently Published in Social Forces
Prof. Kristin Perkins of Georgetown and Prof. Hyojung Lee of UCLA were recently published in the journal Social Forces for their work on the geography of gentrification. The link…
May 4, 2023
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Spring 2023 Colloquia
This spring, two of the Colloquia speakers will present on March 15 and April 19 in Car Barn 427 from 12:30-1:45. In March, Professor Amin Ghaziani from the University of British…
December 19, 2022