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.
On May 25, 2021, United States Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced bipartisan legislation to increase funding for the housing choice voucher (HCV) program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and local public housing authorities.
Stefanie DeLuca has been cited in a recent article from The Economist, "How landlords thwart America’s attempts to house poor people."
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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.
Nicholas Papageorge was interviewed in a New York Times article to discuss his recent NBER working paper, "Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together." Papageorge coauthored the paper along with ten other scholars, two of whom are also based at Johns Hopkins.
PIRL researchers released a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, drawing on survey data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and qualitative interviews with young adults in high-poverty neighborhoods in Baltimore.
In their compelling op-ed published by the Baltimore Sun, Stefanie DeLuca and Meredith Greif discuss the urgent need to increase rental assistance for both tenants and landlords in the wake of COVID-19 and Biden's extended eviction moratorium.
Stefanie DeLuca will be one of the advisors to Abt Associates—a global leader in research, evaluation and program implementation—during its evaluation of HUD's $50 million mobility demonstration. The demonstration intends to "evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to help families with federal housing vouchers access such neighborhoods."
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PIRL associate director Nicholas Papageorge was awarded a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences for a new study on how teachers learn racial competency and how they become more effective over time for all of their students. Prof. Papageorge will work in collaboration with Seth Gershenson (American University), Constance Lindsay (University of North Carolina), and PIRL director Stefanie DeLuca to conduct both quantitative and qualitative phases for the study.