Kathryn Edin
Kathryn Edin is a Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. She also serves as Co-director of The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW).
Academic background
Edin received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1991 and has also taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. As one of the nation’s leading poverty researchers — working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts, through direct, in-depth observations — she has authored eight books and some 60 journal articles. Edin is the Co-Director of The Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW) at Princeton University. She serves as a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Edin lives in Trenton and Baltimore with her husband, Tim, and she has two daughters, Kaitlin and Marisa.