Hope Harvey
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Kentucky
Hope Harvey is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Kentucky. She is also a research affiliate at the Center for Poverty Research. Dr. Harvey’s research focuses on housing, families, and poverty and inequality. Her primary line of research uses multiple methods to study the experiences of families with children who live doubled-up in shared households. Other projects examine residential decision-making and family complexity.
Her primary line of research uses multiple methods to study families with children who live doubled-up in shared households. Scholars are increasingly attentive to family complexity introduced by parents’ romantic partnering. However, focusing solely on the nuclear family fails to capture the full household experience of many children, particularly in non-white and lower-income families, who often live in more complex households. Her research extends the literature on family/household complexity by examining the causes, consequences, and intra-household dynamics of doubled-up households. She shows that inequality in children’s home environments is driven not only by parents and their romantic partners, but also by extended family and non-kin, and that studying doubled-up households can enrich theories of the family and of social support.
Dr. Harvey’s research has received awards or funding from the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and other groups. Her research has been published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, City & Community, Demography, The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Social Forces, and Social Problems.
Prior to joining the Martin School, Dr. Harvey was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy and Sociology from Harvard University, an M.P.A. from the La Follette School at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and a B.A. from Carleton College.