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Yifeng Wan receives two ESS 2023 Awards

Yifeng Wan receives two ESS 2023 Awards

Congratulations to the recipients of #ESS2023 Awards!

Meredith Greif on the Clumsy Regulation of Rented Homes

Meredith Greif on the Clumsy Regulation of Rented Homes

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.

Landlord Regulation and Unintended Consequences with Meredith Greif

Landlord Regulation and Unintended Consequences with Meredith Greif

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 […]

Graduate Student on The Suno India Show

Graduate Student on The Suno India Show

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 […]

Rina Agarwala in The Washington Post

Rina Agarwala in The Washington Post

Is the New UK 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 […]

Rina Agarwala in the Washington Post

Rina Agarwala in the Washington Post

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 […]

Ho-fung Hung featured in JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly

Ho-fung Hung featured in JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly

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 […]

Thornton on Drug War in the New York Times

Thornton on Drug War in the New York Times

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 […]

Thornton’s Revolution in Development Recognized at ASA

Thornton’s Revolution in Development Recognized at ASA

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 […]

Inflation is Making Homelessness Worse

Inflation is Making Homelessness Worse

“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 […]