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 […]

Samantha was selected to receive a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies for 2022-2023.  The Selection Committee reviewed an extremely competitive field of proposals and was only able […]

Christy Thornton’s Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy has won the 2022 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award from the Latin American Studies […]

Assistant Professor Christy Thornton’s recent book Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy(University of California Press, 2021) was selected as Best Scholarly Book of 2021 by […]

Ho-Fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy & Chair, on How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve its Political Aims Globally.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Christy Thornton has received a grant of $111,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Economy and Society Program for a new scholarly initiative, the History […]

Congratulations on the appointment to the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professorship in Public Policy, approved by the Executive Committee of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees.

Stephanie Deluca, James Coleman Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, was quoted in The Atlantic on October 20, 2021 on the idea of distributing housing assistance as cash, which was […]