At least one of every seven children in Maryland lives in poverty. A new analysis says the real number might be higher — maybe one in every five children. Whatever […]

Congratulations to the recipients of #ESS2023 Awards!

Meredith spent two years interviewing more than 100 landlords to learn why they treat tenants the way they do and how the system could improve for both.

How do we respond when regulations intended to help vulnerable tenants end up disadvantaging them even further? Professor Greif asks us to consider the trade-offs inherent in many of our […]

Recently many Information technology-based companies including Meta, Twitter, Byju’s, Unacademy among others announced layoffs. Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks to Aabid Firdausi, a Ph.D. scholar in Sociology at Johns Hopkins […]

Is the new U.K. prime minister a paragon of immigrant success?Rishi Sunak credits his hard-working family for the foundations of his career. But government policies may play a bigger role […]

Describe your primary research or scholarship, and tell us what is most exciting about your current project.One major focus of my research has been how the rise of China reshapes […]

Assistant Professor Christy Thornton published an op-ed in today’s New York Times arguing that the Biden administration’s domestic changes in drug policy won’t work in the absence of changes to […]

Christy Thornton’s first book, Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2021) was recognized with two commendations at the 2022 American Sociological […]

“We’re in a very precarious moment, where the cost of living is going up so quickly — through the price of gas and food and rent — that more people […]