Eva Rosen
Assistant Professor, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
Eva Rosen is assistant professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research is focused on social inequality in the urban context. In particular, she studies the intersection between poverty and American housing policy.
Academic Background
Rosen received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and bachelor's degree from Barnard College of Columbia University. Rosen’s forthcoming book, The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” Housing and the Fate of an American Neighborhood, will be out in June 2020. The book considers recent changes in American housing assistance that have transformed the landscape of ghetto poverty from predominantly high-rise public housing to a voucher system where the poor are housed in the private market. Her ethnography of a Baltimore neighborhood examines the residential decisions and everyday lives of homeowners, renters, and the landlords who house them, in contexts of scarcity, violence, and instability. Current work examines low-income housing and the role that landlords play in four urban housing markets. Another ongoing project maps eviction trends in the District of Columbia with sociology professor Brian McCabe.