Stefanie DeLuca will be associate editor of Sociological Methods and Research (SMR). SMR is the top-ranked methodology journal in the social sciences by impact factor (4.51 in 2019), putting it ahead of journals such as Econometrica and Psychometrika. SMR is also among the top 5 sociology journals worldwide, ranking ahead of the American Journal of Sociology.

Stefanie DeLuca has been appointed to serve on the Committee on Population (CPOP) study, A Research Agenda for Improving Economic and Social Mobility in the United States, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The Century Lives podcast is produced by Stanford's Center on Longevity and explores the discrepancies in life expectancies across American Communities. Season 3, Episode 6 is a story about relocation. It reexamines Moving to Opportunity: a grand 1990s public housing experiment intended to improve the incomes of public housing residents. That didn’t happen (at least initially), and the program was seen as a failure. But alongside the negative results, a positive and unexpected finding emerged, with a lesson about the surprising impact of neighborhood on health and longevity.

At least one of every seven children in Maryland lives in poverty. A new analysis says the real number might be higher -- maybe one in every five children. Whatever the number is, it’s too high. Gov. Wes Moore has pledged to end child poverty in Maryland. He joins us to tell us how he plans to do that, and how long it will take. 

Then Johns Hopkins sociologist Stefanie DeLuca tells how helping poor families move to neighborhoods where people are doing well boosts their own success.

A working paper, titled "When Anything Can Happen," authored by Stefanie DeLuca and Nicholas Papageorge was recently featured in Johns Hopkins Magazine. This study explores the decisions low-income minority students make about postsecondary education.

The Community & Urban Sociology section of the American Sociological Association announced in June that PIRL Director Stefanie DeLuca was a recipient of the 2021 Publicly Engaged Scholar award.  This award recognizes community and urban sociologists who use their research to make significant and meaningful contributions to public debates, public policy, and/or communities.

Stefanie DeLuca has been cited in a recent article from The Economist, "How landlords thwart America’s attempts to house poor people."

Read the article here.

Stefanie DeLuca, the James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, is quoted in the New York Times.

Stefanie DeLuca, James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, has been elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA), an honor that recognizes her as one of the most successful researchers in her field. SRA is a highly selective 400-person society of sociological scholars founded in 1936, and annually elects up to only 14 new members based on their excellence in research. DeLuca's work focuses on urban poverty, race, housing and educational inequality.