Thornton selected for Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Books of 2021

Christy Thornton

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 […]


Expert Witness for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China

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.


Hewlett Grant Funds New History & Political Economy Project

Christy Thornton

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 to Lingxin Hao

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.


Stefanie DeLuca quoted in The Atlantic

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 […]


Educated women increasingly likely to have first baby before marriage

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


JHU Sociology Faculty Searches

Faculty Position in Race, Racism and/or Anti-Racism Faculty Position in Social Demography


Recent Trends in Global Economic Inequality

Professor Ho-fung Hung published in Annual Review of Sociology


Assistant Professor Christy Thornton in ISSF

Fences Make Bad Hombres: Trump in Latin America


Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ryan Calder

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 […]