Ann Owens
Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy
Biographical Note
Ann Owens received her BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2004. Prior to graduate school, Ann worked at the Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work where her research focused on working families and the work-family balance. Her academic interests center around inequality in education, the family and neighborhoods. Her qualifying paper examined how school and neighborhood contexts jointly influence adolescents' achievement. Currently, Ann is conducting a qualitative exploration of neighborhood effects on education; examining how neighborhood poverty affects parenting, and identifying how gentrification in neighborhoods in Chicago affects displaced residents and citywide inequality.
09/18/2008
- Research Interests
- Inequality and stratification, sociology of education, neighborhood effects, neighborhood change and gentrification, sociology of the family, work-family research
- Previous Degrees
- 2004 - BA, Sociology - University of Chicago
| Teaching Experience | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sociology 128 | Models of Social Science Research | Teaching Fellow |
| Sociology 145 | Urban Social Problems | Teaching Fellow |
| Sociology 107 | The American Family | Teaching Fellow |
| Sociology 171 | Sociology of Crime and Punishment | Teaching Fellow |
Contact
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33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138