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Judith A. Levine

Department of Sociology Temple University

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2014 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Program on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Temple University

2018 – Present Director, Public Policy Lab, Temple University 2016 – 2018 Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, Temple

University 2008 – 2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Program on Women’s

Studies, Temple University 2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology and Institute for Policy

Research, Northwestern University 1999-2007 Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University

of Chicago 1997-1999 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy, University of

Michigan Post-doctoral fellowship

Education December 1997 Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University June 1992 M.A. in Sociology, Northwestern University June 1988 A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Sociology, Harvard University

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Areas of Interest Poverty and Inequality, Social Policy, Gender and Work, Social Stratification, Sociology of the Family, Social Demography

Publications Book Levine, Judith A. 2013. Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-

Income Mothers and Why It Matters. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Ain’t No Trust provides a rare qualitative comparison of low-income women’s experiences with welfare and low-wage work before and after welfare reform through qualitative interviews with a total of 95 low-income mothers across two time periods (the mid-1990s before welfare reform and the mid-2000s after reform was fully entrenched). The book argues that distrust is a major factor in low-income mothers’ lives. Distrust matters because it keeps mothers from taking actions the broader society wants them to take, such as staying in jobs or getting married. But rather than arguing that we should focus on “fixing” the mothers’ trust assessments themselves, the book brings attention to what often leads them to their distrust. Many mothers report that their distrust is learned through experience with those they find to be untrustworthy in a variety of arenas. Welfare reform created incentives for mothers to take action in arenas such as welfare, work, child care, romantic unions, and networks of friends and family but did not alter the structure of these arenas, leaving intact the dynamics that produce distrust.

• Author Meets Critics Sessions: o 2014 American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA o 2014 Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Charlotte, NC

• Invited Talks:

o University of Wisconsin--Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) o University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Sociology and Political Science o Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), U.S. Department of

Human Services, annual meeting of Child Care Policy and Research Consortium o University of Michigan—School of Social Work and National Poverty Center o Temple University – Beasley School of Law o University of Chicago—Urban Network and Employment Instability Network

• Media Interviews:

o NBC News, In Plain Sight: Poverty in America Series o MSNBC, The Melissa Harris-Perry Show o Pacific Standard, feature article on Ain’t No Trust o Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA o The Mark Johnson Show, WDEV, Burlington, VT o Ocala Live with Larry Whitler and Robin MacBlane, WOCA, Gainesville, FL o Live, with Mary Jones WDRC, Hartford, CT o The Dr. Alvin Jones Show, WNEW, Washington, D.C. o The Frank Truatt Morning Show, WTQB, Poughkeepsie, NY


o The Frankie Boyer Show, WXBR, Boston, MA and nationally syndicated o The Social Workers, WCDB, Albany, NY o Conversations with Jeff Schechtman, KVON, Napa, CA o Chamber Chat, WCHE, West Chester, PA o The Morning Show with Al Windsperger, WYRQ, St. Cloud, MN o Conversations with Peter Solomon, WIP, Philadelphia, PA

Articles and Book Chapters, Peer Reviewed Levine, Judith A. 2009. “It’s a Man’s Job, or So They Say: The Maintenance of Sex Segregation in

a Manufacturing Plant.” The Sociological Quarterly, 50, 257-282. Levine, Judith A., Clifton R. Emery, and Harold Pollack. 2007. “The Well-Being of Children

Born to Teen Mothers.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 69(February), 105-122. DeLeire, Thomas, Judith A. Levine, and Helen Levy. 2006. “Is Welfare Reform Responsible for

Low-Skilled Women’s Declining Health Insurance Coverage in the 1990s?” Journal of Human Resources, Summer XLI (3), 495-528.

Kalil, Ariel, Judith A. Levine, and Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest. 2005. “Following in Their Parents’

Footsteps: How Characteristics of Parental Work Predict Adolescents’ Interest in Parents’ Jobs” in Barbara Schneider and Linda Waite, eds. Families Working: Time Apart, Time Together, pp. 422-442. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Levine, Judith A., Harold Pollack, and Maureen E. Comfort. 2001. “Academic and Behavioral

Outcomes among the Children of Adolescent Mothers.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(2), 355-369.

Danziger, S., S. Danziger, M. Corcoran, C. Heflin, A. Kalil, J. Levine, D. Rosen, K. Seefeldt, K.

Siefert, R. Tolman. 2000. “Barriers to the Employment of Welfare Recipients” in Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers, eds. Prosperity for All?: Tight Labor Markets & African-American Employment, pp.245-278. New York: Russell Sage.

Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. with Alisa Belzer, Colleen Davis, Judith A. Levine, Kristine Morrow, and

Mary Washington. 1993. “How Families Manage Risk and Opportunity in Dangerous Neighborhoods” in William Julius Wilson, ed. Sociology and the Public Agenda, pp. 231-257. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr., Judith A. Levine, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 1990. “The Children of

Teenage Mothers: Patterns of Early Childbearing in Two Generations.” Family Planning Perspectives 22 (2), 54-61. (Family Planning Perspectives has since been renamed Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health).


Essays, Research Briefs, and Book Reviews Levine, Judith A. 2016. “How Family Friendly are Our Candidates’ Policies?” The Philadelphia

Inquirer, Sunday Health Section Guest Essay, October 9, 2016. Levine, Judith A. 2013. “Trusting the Poor.” Boston Review, December 17

http://www.bostonreview.net/us/trusting-poor. Danziger, S., M. Corcoran, S. Danziger, C. Heflin, A. Kalil, J. Levine, D. Rosen, K. Seefeldt, K.

Siefert, R. Tolman. 1999. “Barriers to Work among Welfare Recipients.” Focus, 20(2), 31-35.

Gran, Brian K. and Judith A. Levine. 1998. Invited review essay on Social Welfare and Family

Policy (Berrick 1995, Mezey 1996, and Teles 1996). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Summer 17(3), pp.541-549.

Working Papers “Gender and the Long Arm of the Job: A Beeper Study Analysis of Work-to-Home Spillover and

Crossover,” co-authored with Valerie Bonner and Joshua Klugman. “Welfare Recipients and the Roots of Distrust.” “Emotions in Gendered Jobs: Sex-Segregation in Occupations and Women’s Experience at

Work.” “Different from Whom?: Diversity and Organizational Commitment in a Manufacturing Plant”,

co-authored with Roberto M. Fernandez.

Presentations Selected Invited Talks Served as moderator on “Gender and Family” Panel at the Global Family Change:

Understanding the Role of Families in Global, Economic, and Demographic Shifts conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, September 2019.

Served on “Research in Action” Panel at The Prosperity Symposium: Economic Mobility

Research in Action conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Former Mayor Michael Nutter, January 2019.

Served as “Critic” on Author Meets Critics Session on Joan Maya Mazelis’s book Surviving

Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor (New York University Press, 2017) at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2018.

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“The Trust Gap: A Hidden Barrier to Successful Poverty Policy,” presented at the University of

Houston’s Annual Sociology in Action Lecture, March 2017. Served as “Critic” on Author Meets Critics Session on Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy

Black’s book On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy (University of California Press, 2015) at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2017.

Served as “Critic” on Author Meets Critics Session on Sara Goldrick-Rab’s book Paying the

Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream (University of Chicago Press, 2016) at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, February 2017.

“Trust and Distrust in Action: How Low-Income Families Navigate Suspicion,” presented as

guest lecture in Trust & Society course, Dartmouth University, Department of Sociology, October 2016.

Served as “Critic” on Author Meets Critics Session on Linda Blum’s book Raising Generation

Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (NYU Press, 2015) at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2016.

“Trust and Client Service Delivery,” presented at University of Pennsylvania Medical School,

Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, June 2016. “Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why

It Matters,” presented at University of Mary Washington, Program on Women’s and Gender Studies, March 2016.

“The Trust Gap: Hidden Barrier to Successful Poverty Policy,” presented at the Mayor’s Office

of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, Philadelphia, Pa, February 2016. “The Trust Deficit: Fears and Failures in the Workplace and Welfare Office,” presented at

Temple University – Fox School of Business, Department of Human Resource Management, January 2016.

“Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why

It Matters,” presented at Widener University – Sociology Department, December 2015. “Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why

It Matters,” presented at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015. “Trust and Public Policy,” Keynote Address at the Bucks County Women’s Advocacy

Coalition’s Annual Conversation with Elected Officials, April 2015.


“Ain’t No Trust: Poverty, Policy, and the Paucity of Trust,” presented at the University of Chicago -- Urban Network and Employment Instability, Family Well-Being, and Social Policy Network Public Talk, May 2014.

“Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why

It Matters,” presented at Temple University – Beasley School of Law Public Law Talk Series, April 2014.

“Ain’t No Trust: Poverty, Trust, and Urban Inequality,” presented as a guest lecture in the course

Political Science 136-601: Urban Politics in the U.S. at the University of Pennsylvania, Political Science Department, April 2014.

“Ain’t No Trust: Poverty, Policy, and the Paucity of Trust,” presented at the University of

Michigan -- National Poverty Center Public Lecture, March 2014. “Ain’t No Trust: Distrust and its Implications for Poverty Policy,” presented at the University of

Wisconsin—Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty Colloquium Series, November 2013. “Ain’t No Trust: Distrust as a Form of Inequality,” presented as a guest lecture in the course

Sociology 010: Social Inequality at the University of Pennsylvania, Sociology Department, November 2013.

“Ain’t No Trust: Child Care Quality and Low-income Mothers’ Child Care Choices,”

at the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Human Services, annual meeting of Child Care Policy and Research Consortium, October 2013 (Postponed to November 2014 due to government shut-down.)

“Building Distrust: Suspicion and Stalled Action in the Welfare Reform Era,” presented at Temple University’s Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, October 2011.

“The Production of Distrust in Low-Income Mothers before and after Welfare Reform,” presented at

the Temple University Center for Humanities at Temple distinguished faculty lecture series, November 2010.

“Trust and the Welfare Office: Low-Income Mothers’ Interactions with Caseworkers Pre- and Post-

Reform,” presented at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Sociology Family and Gender colloquia series, December 2008.

“Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Child Care Research”, presented at the

Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) conference on Child-Care Decision-Making, December 2008.


Reform”, presented at MDRC research colloquia series, June 2008.


“Low-Income Mothers’ Trust in Child Care Providers before and after Welfare Reform”, presented at Washington and Lee University Women’s Studies lecture series, April 2008.

“Reaching for the Bottom Rung: Low-Income Mothers’ Climb into the Labor Market before and

after Welfare Reform”, presented at the University of Maryland Qualitative Research Methods Colloquia series, November 2007.


Reform”, presented at the Northwestern University Department of Sociology Faculty Colloquia Series, March 2007.

“Does Welfare Reform Reflect the Social Context of Poor Women’s Welfare and Employment

Experience?”, presented at the University of Chicago’s Population Research Center Workshop Series, October 2006.

“Does Welfare Reform Reflect the Social Context of Poor Women’s Welfare and Employment

Experience?”, presented at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration Faculty Colloquium Series, February 2006.

“Following in Their Parents’ Footsteps: How characteristics of parental work predict adolescents’

interest in parents’ jobs” co-authored with Ariel Kalil and Kathleen Ziol-Guest, presented at the University of Chicago Alfred P. Sloan Center for Parents, Children, and Work colloquium series, May 2003.

“The Pressures of Poverty on the Family”, Council on Contemporary Families annual meeting, New

York City, NY, April 2003. “A ‘Crisis’ of Children Having Children?: The Well-Being of Children Born to Adolescent

Mothers” co-authored with Harold Pollack, presented at the Princeton University Office of Population Research Workshop Series, March 2002.

“The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers: Multiple Approaches to Assessing the Causal

Links” co-authored with Harold Pollack, presented at the University of Michigan RWJF Health Policy Scholars Program Workshop, March 2002.

“The Social Context of Low-Income Mothers’ Welfare and Work Choices”, presented at the

University of Chicago’s Social Stratification Workshop Series, 2001. “The Effects of Adolescent Motherhood on Child Outcomes”, presented at the Robert Wood

Johnson Scholars in Health Policy annual meeting, Aspen Institute, Aspen, 1999. “The Health Status of Welfare Recipients: Implications for Welfare-to-Work Transitions”, presented

at the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy annual meeting, Aspen Institute, Aspen, 1998.

“Welfare, Work, and Choices: Expanding Notions of Economic Incentives”, presented at the

University of Chicago Workshop on Urban Inequality, Spring 1996.


Selected Refereed Conference Presentations “Gender and the Long Arm of the Job: A Beeper Study Analysis of Work-to-Home Spillover and

Crossover,” co-authored with Valerie Bonner and Joshua Klugman, presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2015

“Welfare Recipients and the Roots of Distrust,” presented at an invited session at the Southern

Sociological Society annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2015. “Infectious Moods: A Beeper Study Analysis of Spillover and Gendered Crossover between

Spouses”, presented at the Work-Family Researchers Network bi-annual meeting, New York, NY, June 2014.

“Building Distrust: Low-Income Mothers’ Skepticism in the Welfare Reform Era”, presented at

the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Denver, CO, August 2012 “The Child Care Problem in the Welfare Reform Era: Access or Trust?”, presented at the Work

Family Researchers Network meeting, New York, NY, June 2012. “Bonding and Bridging Social Capital before and after Welfare Reform”, presented at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011. “Gender Distrust and Low-Income Women’s Union Formation Pre- and Post-Welfare Reform”,

presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.

“The Production of Distrust in Low-Income Mothers in the Era of Welfare Reform”, presented at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2009. “Low-Income Mothers’ Trust in Child Care Providers before and after Welfare Reform”, presented

at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual research conference, Washington, DC, November 2007.

“I Just Couldn’t Stay after That: Workplace Conflict as Obstacle to Stable Welfare-to-Work

Transitions”, presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York City, NY, August 2007.

“Did Welfare Reform Solve the Child Care Problem for Low-Income Families?”, presented at the

American Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal, Canada August 2006. “Personal Responsibilities: How Poor Mothers Manage Welfare, Jobs, and Family”, presented at the

Population Association of America annual meeting, Los Angles, CA, April 2006.


“Were the Assumptions behind Welfare Reform Right?: Comparing Recipients’ Attitudes and Experience Pre- and Post-PRWORA”, presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.

“Is Welfare Reform Responsible for Low-Skilled Women’s Declining Health Insurance Coverage in

the 1990s?” coauthored with Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy, presented at the Population Association of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 2005.

“Welfare Reform and the Uninsured” co-authored with Thomas DeLeire and Helen Levy, presented

at the Population Association of America annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 2003. “The Well-Being of Children Born to Teen Mothers: Multiple Approaches to Assessing the Causal

Links” co-authored with Clifton Emery and Harold Pollack, presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL August 2002.

“Following in Their Parents’ Footsteps: How characteristics of parental work predict adolescents’

interest in parents’ jobs” co-authored with Ariel Kalil, presented at the “Persons, Processes, and Places: Research on Families, Workplaces, and Communities” conference, sponsored by the Business and Professional Women’s Foundation, the Center for Families at Purdue University and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, San Francisco, 2002.

“Consequences of Adolescent Motherhood for the Next Generation: The Search for Causal Links”

co-authored with Harold Pollack and Maureen E. Comfort, presented at the Population Association of America meeting, Washington, D.C., 2001.

“Consequences of Adolescent Motherhood for the Next Generation: The Search for Causal Links”

co-authored with Harold Pollack and Maureen E. Comfort, presented at the Society for Research on Child Development, Minneapolis, 2001.

“Academic and Behavioral Outcomes among the Children of Young Mothers” co-authored with

Harold Pollack and Maureen E. Comfort, presented at the Population Association of America meeting, Los Angeles, 2000.

“Are Exemptions Adequate Treatment?: The Relationship between Health and Employment among

Welfare Recipients” presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Chicago, 1999.

“Welfare-to-Work and Back: Workplace Conflict and Turnover”, presented at the American

Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco ,1998. “The Health Status and Care-Giving Responsibilities of Welfare Recipients”, presented at the

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management annual meeting, New York City, 1998.

“Policy Incentives Confront Everyday Realities: Integrating Economic and Sociological Perspectives

on the Welfare-to-Work Transition”, presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Toronto, 1997.


“How Welfare Recipients Make Employment Decisions: Expanding Policy Notions of Incentives”,

presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, New York City, 1996. “Different from Whom?: Diversity and Organizational Commitment in a Manufacturing Plant,”

co-authored with Roberto M. Fernandez, presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Los Angeles, 1994.

“If You Can’t Stand the Lifting, Get Out of the Factory: Cultural and Institutional Barriers to

Mobility for Women in Manufacturing,” presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Pittsburgh, 1992.

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors 2020-2022 “Landing a Job: Moving from College in the Employment in the New Economy,”

P.I. Judith A. Levine, Russell Sage Foundation, $33,622 2018-2020 “Landing a Job: Moving from College in the Employment in the New Economy,”

P.I. Judith A. Levine, Russell Sage Foundation, $49,354 2018-2021 “Same Degree Different Paths?: How Social Class Shapes the College-to-Work

Transition,” P.I. Judith A. Levine, Spencer Foundation, $49,979 2020 Summer Research Award, Temple University 2019-2020 CLARA Award, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2019-2020 Grant-in-Aid Award, Temple University (Applied Fall 2018) 2018-19 CLARA Award, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2018-2020 LAURA Scholarships, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University to support

Marci Monaco-Vavrik as research assistant, Fall 2018, Spring–Fall 2019, Spring 2020

2018 Summer Research Award, Temple University 2017-18 CLARA Award, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2017-18 LAURA Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University to support

Caitlin McGrory as research assistant, Fall and Spring 2014 William J. Goode Award for Best Book, Family Section of the American

Sociological Association, Honorable Mention


2014 Author Meets Critics Session for Ain’t No Trust, American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2014

2014 Author Meets Critics Session for Ain’t No Trust, Southern Sociological Society

annual meeting, Charlotte, NC, April 2014 2013-14 Grant-in-Aid Award, Temple University 2013 Summer Research Award, Temple University 2012 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University 2011 Temple University Sabbatical Semester and Grant-in-Aid Award 2010-11 Center for Humanities at Temple Faculty Fellow 2010 Summer Research Award, Temple University 2007 William Pollak Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Social Service

Administration, University of Chicago 2005-2006 Sloan Center for Parents, Children, and Work Research Fellowship, $37,000 2005-2006 Center for Health Administration Studies Seed Grant, $13,000 2005-2006 “Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence”, National

Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship (P.I. for student Clifton R. Emery’s dissertation grant), $20,000

2004-2005 NICHD-U of C Population Research Center Seed Grant, $10,000 2003-2004 Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Faculty Award, $21,000 2003-2004 Louise R. Bowler Junior Faculty Award, $5,000 2002-2003 “Welfare Reform and the Uninsured”, co-PI’s: Thomas DeLeire, Judith Levine and

Helen Levy. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $100,000 2000-2001 Joint Center for Poverty Research Faculty Research Grant, $10,000 1997-1999 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy,

University of Michigan 1995-1997 National Science Foundation Dissertation Award, $7,500 1996-1997 Joint Center for Poverty Research Graduate Fellow


1996-1997 Northwestern Alumnae Dissertation Award 1996 Robert F. Winch Paper Award for Best Graduate Student

Professional Paper in Sociology, Northwestern University 1995 Northwestern University Dissertation Grant 1995 Robert F. Winch Teaching Award for Outstanding Graduate

Student Lecturer in Sociology, Northwestern University 1992-1994, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow; Poverty, Race, and 1995-1996 Urban Inequality Training Program at Northwestern University and University of Chicago 1988 Albert M. Fulton Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Sociology,

Harvard-Radcliffe College

Research Affiliations 2018-Present Public Policy Lab, Temple University 2010-2011 Center for Humanities at Temple Faculty Fellow 2007-2008 Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University 2006-2007 Co-Organizer, Population Research Center Workshop Series, University of Chicago 1999-2008 Faculty Affiliate, Population Research Center, University of Chicago 2003-2008 Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, University of

Chicago 2000-2006 Faculty Affiliate, University of Chicago, Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children

and Work (Affiliation until Center ceased activity) 1999-2004 Faculty Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago and

Northwestern University (Affiliation until Center ceased activity) 1997- 1999 Research Associate, Women’s Employment Study, University of Michigan. Member

of research team at Poverty Research and Training Center collecting and analyzing four-wave survey of Michigan welfare recipients on barriers to employment


Teaching and Advising Temple University Courses Soc 8221 Qualitative Methods – graduate course (Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2018) Soc 8381 Social Inequality – graduate seminar (Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2019) Soc/WS 851 Gender in America (Fall 2008; Spring 2009; Spring 2010; Spring 2011; Spring

2012; Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2016) Soc/WS 3259 Women and Poverty (Fall 2008--taught under Soc 3240/WS 3000; Spring 2010;

Spring 2012; Spring 2013) WS 1096 Introduction to Women’s Studies (Spring 2009; Spring 2011; Fall 2012; Spring 2014) Soc 3930/WS 3900 (Honors) Living Below the Line: the Realities of Poverty in America (Fall

2013, Spring 2018) Soc 8341 Sociology of Kinship – graduate seminar (Spring 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2017) Independent Studies Gender and Poverty, Colin Hammar, Sociology doctoral student (Fall 2014) Women in Engineering, Kelly Feighan, Sociology doctoral student (Fall 2014) Women and Poverty, Zoe Nesin, Women’s Studies undergraduate student (Fall 2013) Gender, Work and Poverty, Jennifer Kim, Sociology doctoral student (Spring 2009) Poverty and Homelessness, Brandon Fairchild, Sociology doctoral Student (Fall 2018) Doctoral Students Ritwika Biswas: External Reader (Geography and Urban Studies) Valerie Bonner: Dissertation Committee Chair, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant Corita Brown: External Reader (Geography and Urban Studies) Clifton Emery: Dissertation Committee Chair Brandon Fairchild: Dissertation Committee Chair, Special Preliminary Exam Committee Colin Hammar: Dissertation Committee Chair, Teaching Assistant, Public Policy Lab Assistant Colleen Hammelman: External Reader (Geography and Urban Studies) CiAuna Heard: Dissertation Committee Member, Research Assistant Kelly Feighan: Dissertation Committee Chair Elizabeth Flatley: Research Assistant Danielle Johnson: Dissertation Committee Member Kendall LaParo: Research Assistant Michael Lynch: Dissertation Committee Chair Ginger McCartney (Education): Dissertation Committee Member Keith McIntosh: Dissertation Committee Member, Research Assistant Ryan Murphy: Dissertation Committee Member Tatiana Poladko: Research Assistant Anne Roder: Dissertation Committee Member, Special Preliminary Exam Committee Lauren Ross: Research Assistant


Molly Sapia: Dissertation Committee Member Daniel Schermond: Dissertation Committee Member David Schrider: Dissertation Committee Chair Christina Stewart: Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant Amanda Turner: Dissertation Committee Member Corey Waters: Research Assistant Andrew Young: Dissertation Committee Member; Teaching Assistant Previous Courses Taught at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University Undergraduate: Social Stratification and Inequality; Senior Thesis Seminar in Research Methods Master’s Level: Gender, Work, and Family; Poverty and Social Welfare Policy Doctoral Level: Social Stratification and Inequality Service Service to the Profession Invited Workshop Reviewer, Presented at University of Pennsylvania Quattrone Center

Workshop on Matt Clair’s book manuscript for Princeton University Press, March 2019 Council Member, Family Section of the American Sociological Association, Elected Spring 2016

for term ending August 2019 Chair, Nominations committee of the Family Section of the American Sociology Association,

2017-18 and 2018-19 Session Presider, Family Section Roundtable Panel, American Sociological Association Annual

Meeting, August 2017 Chair, Distinguished Career Award committee of the Family Section of the American Sociology

Association, 2016-17 External Reviewer, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Washington & Lee University,

March 2015 William J. Goode Book Award Committee Member, Family Section, American Sociological

Association, 2015 Organizer, Invited Symposium Session on “Viewing Work-Family Linkages through Romantic

Relationships”, Work-Family Researchers Network annual meeting, June 2014 Career Achievement Award Committee Member, Family Section, American Sociological

Association, 2014 Organizer and Session Presider, “International Social Policy” and “Social Policy: Gender,

Family, and the Safety Net” sessions, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2013


Outside Honors Thesis Examiner, Swarthmore College Program on Public Policy, 2013 Reviewer, TANF Fact Sheet, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2012-2013 Nominating Committee Member, Family Section, American Sociological Association, 2011-2012 Rose Coser Prize for Best Dissertation Proposal in Gender and Family Committee Member, Eastern

Sociological Society, 2011 Organizer and Presider, “Families and the Economic Recession” Session, American Sociological

Association Annual Meeting, August 2010 Presider, “Transition to Adulthood” Session, Population Association of America Annual Meeting,

April/May 2009 Poster Judge, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2006 Presider, “Welfare Reform” Session, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August

2005 Organizer and Presider, “Family and Kinship” Sessions, American Sociological Association Annual

Meeting, August 2003 Peer reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography,

Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Social Forces, Social Problems, Social Science & Medicine, Social Service Review, The Sociological Quarterly, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, University of California Press.

Breul Prize Committee Member, Social Service Review, 2005 Grant Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Office for Planning, Research and Administration,

United States Department of Agriculture, Census Bureau, National Survey of American Families Small Grants Program, W.T. Grant Foundation.

Member, American Sociological Association Member, Eastern Sociological Society Member, Work and Family Researchers Network


Service to Temple University 2018-Present Director, Public Policy Lab Organized Inaugural Symposium Sept 5, 2019 and Colloquim Speaker Series and

Bi-Weekly Workshop, Co-organized Webinar on Racial Injustice June 18, 2020, Editor of Policy Brief Series, Organizer/Interviewer of Interview Series

2019-Present Member, CLA Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Summer 2019 Member, Sociology Department Tenure Committee Spring 2019 Chair, Special Preliminary Exam Committee on Poverty 2018-2019 Member, Graduate Committee 2017-2018 Chair, Temple University Press Faculty Board of Review (June 2017-August

2018) 2017-Present Member, Public Policy Master’s Program Steering Committee 2017-2018 Chair, GenEd Recertification for Gender in America course 2015-2017 Temple University Press Faculty Board of Review member 2016-2018 Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program 2016-2018 Director of Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium 2016-2019 Member of College of Liberal Arts Research and Service Awards Committee

(Chair: 2017-18, 2018-19) Spring 2018 Sociology Department Urban Preliminary Exam Committee 2016-Present Sociology Department Graduate and Graduate Admissions Committee Spring 2017 College of Liberal Arts Entrepreneurship Education Committee Spring 2017 College of Liberal Arts 2017 Event Planning Committee Spring 2017 Sociology Department Urban Preliminary Exam Committee Summer 2017 Chair, Sociology Department Review Committee for Junior Faculty Member Spring 2016 Sociology Department Urban Preliminary Exam Committee –Tie-Breaker 2008-Present Women’s Studies Program Steering Committee member


2014-Present Sociology Department Mentor to Junior Faculty Member 2015-2016 Sociology Department Executive Committee Member (Elected) 2014-2016 College of Liberal Arts Merit Committee member (Elected) 2014-2016 Sociology Undergraduate Advisor 2014-2016 Sociology Department Undergraduate Committee member 2008-2015 Sociology Department Gender and Sexuality Preliminary Exam Committee

member (2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015 Committee Chair) 2012-2014 Sociology Department Graduate Studies Committee member 2012-2013 Sociology Department Executive Committee member (Elected) Spring 2013 Chair, GenEd Recertification Committee for Gender in America Spring 2012 Sociology Department Chair Search Committee member 2010-2011 Sociology Department Colloquium Series and Student Conference Committee

member 2009-2010 Sociology Department Colloquium Series and Student Conference Committee

member 2008-2009 Sociology Department Faculty Search Committee member Service to University of Chicago 2006-2007 Curriculum Policy Committee member 2006-2007 Admissions Committee member 2006-2007 Co-Organizer, Population Research Center Workshop Series, University of Chicago 2005 – 2006 Chair, Social Administration Faculty 2005 - 2006 Curriculum Policy Committee member 2004 – 2006 Admissions Committee member 2004 – 2005 McCormick Tribune Community Chair Faculty Search Committee member

1999 – 2004 Doctoral Committee member


2000 – 2003 Head of Doctoral Qualifying Exam

2002 – 2003 Faculty Search Committee member 2001 – 2002 Community Day Planning Committee member 2000 – 2001 Facilities Committee member Service to the Community Member, Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention convened by Philadelphia City

Council, Fall 2019 Speaker, Beth Am Israel, Penn Valley, PA “Living Below the Line: The Realities of Poverty in

America,” December, 2015 Research Committee Member (2012-2013 Committee Co-Chair), Girls Justice League project on the

Status of Girls and Young Women in Philadelphia, 2012-2015 Opening Speaker, 9th Annual Women’s Issues Summit, organized by Women’s Way, 2013 Member, Chicago Jobs Council Welfare-to-Work Task Force, 2005-2007 Media Interviews: Quoted in article on impact of closing food shelter due to Covid in The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 1, 2020 Quoted in article on inequality in Covid testing in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6 2020 Quoted in article on 70,000 needed to live in Philadelphia without help in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 17 2020 Quoted in article on farm subsidies in urban areas in The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 2020 Quoted in article on 5 year ACS numbers, poverty diffs by Phila neighborhoods in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 19, 2019 Quoted in article on Census error in 2018 poverty figures in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept 26, 2019 Quoted in article on ALICE measure of working poverty in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug 2 2019


Quoted in article on decline in Food Stamps receipt in The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2019 Quoted in article on whether the “unborn” are favored over children in poverty in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 20, 2019 Guest on “Flashpoint with Cherri Gregg” on KYW Radio, May 12, 2018 Quoted in article on class status and the anti-vaccine movement in The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 2019 Quoted in article on Census neighborhood poverty figures in The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 6, 2018 Quoted in article on school ban on Canada Goose coats in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 21, 2018 Quoted in article on geography as predictor of life chances in The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 3, 2018 Quoted in article on African-American poverty rate in Philadelphia in The Philadelphia Tribune, September 29, 2018 Quoted in article on child poverty in The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 22, 2018 Quoted in article on Philadelphia’s efforts to reduce poverty in The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2018 Quoted in article on families’ struggles despite the economic recovery in The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 9, 2018 Quoted in article on hunger in Philadelphia in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 2018 Quoted in article on Philadelphia program to combat hunger in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 18, 2018 Quoted in article on gender and education in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 2017 Quoted in article on the term “blue-collar guy” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 2017 Quoted in article on new poverty rates for WHYY, September 13, 2017 Quoted in article on new poverty rates in The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2017 Quoted in article on social class and face recognition in The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 5, 2017


Quoted in article on the use and cultural meaning of the term “White Trash” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 22, 2017 Quoted in article on legislation banning employers from asking candidates’ salary histories in Al Dia News, May 18, 2017 Quoted in article on legislation banning employers from asking candidates’ salary histories in The Christian Science Monitor, January 24, 2017 Interview Adapted for separate article on MSN News, April 3, 2017 Interviewed on camera by CBS Local News on Philadelphia’s high non-marriage rate, January 24, 2017 Interviewed on camera by CBS National News at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, on the meaning of the first woman being nominated as a major party candidate, July 28, 2016 Featured in NewsWorks piece by Aaron Moselle, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA, on how Philadelphia became a poor city, July 25, 2016 Interview adapted for separate piece on National NPR’s Here & Now, July 29, 2016 Guest on NewsWorks Tonight with Dave Heller, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA, discussing Mayor Nutter’s record on poverty policy, December 17, 2015 Quoted in article on poverty in Philadelphia in The Jewish Exponent, December 17, 2015 Guest on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA, discussing deep poverty in Philadelphia, October 5, 2015 Quoted in article on deep poverty figures in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 2015 Guest on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA, discussing trends in women’s labor market experience, December 22, 2014 Quoted in article on new poverty figures in Philadelphia in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fall 2014 Quoted in article on public attitudes towards welfare spending in The Portland Press Herald, Portland Maine, Spring 2014 Guest on Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC, January 2014 discussing Ain’t No Trust and Shriver Report on Women and Economic Insecurity Interviewed for Essay on Ain’t No Trust in Pacific Standard, Winter 2014 Quoted in article on public assistance usage among fast food workers in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fall 2013


Quoted in article on increase in public assistance benefit denials in Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fall 2013 Quoted in article on pre-work certification requirements for welfare benefits in multiple states in The Portland Press Herald, Portland Maine, Fall 2013 Quoted in article on “deep poverty” in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Spring 2013 Interviewed by WKYW Philadelphia on the rise in single-mother families, Spring 2012. Interviewed on book Ain’t No Trust by: NBC News’ “In Plain Sight: Poverty in America” series; The Mark Johnson Show, WDEV Burlington, VT; Ocala Live with Larry Whitler and Robin MacBlane, WOCA Gainesville, FL; Live, with Mary Jones WDRC Hartford, CT; The Dr. Alvin Jones Show, WNEW Washington, D.C.; Frank Truatt Morning Show, WTQB Pougkeepsie, NY; The Frankie Boyer Show, WXBR Boston, MA and nationally syndicated; The Social Workers, WCDB, Albany, NY; Conversations with Jeff Schechtman, KVON, Napa, CA; Chamber Chat, WCHE, West Chester, PA; The Morning Show with Al Windsperger, WYRQ, St. Cloud, MN; Conversations with Peter Solomon, WIP, Philadelphia, PA; Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA

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