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 […]

Andrew Cherlin, Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy, in Hub.

Professor Ho-fung Hung published in Annual Review of Sociology

Ryan Calder’s paper “Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets” (Sociological Theory 2020, 38(4): 334–361) has won the 2021 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the Consumers and Consumption section of […]

Stefanie DeLuca, James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, won the Publicly Engaged Scholar Award from the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section. This award recognizes community and urban […]

Robert Slavin, global authority on education research and evidence-based school reform, dies at 70.

It is with great sadness that I share the news about the passing of Professor Melvin L. Kohn in his home on March 19, 2021. Mel is an Emeritus Professor […]

Joel Andreas’ book, Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China (Oxford 2019), has been awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies. he prize is awarded each year to two books, one whose main focus is on China before 1900 and the other for works on post-1900 China.