Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members
Promoting sociology in Australia
Facilitating sociology teaching and research
Enhancing the professional development of TASA members
Biography
Katherine Newman, a widely published expert on poverty and the working poor and an experienced academic administrator, joined Johns Hopkins in September 2010 as the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (and Professor of Sociology). She has written or co-authored 12 books, has focused much of her scholarly work on the lives of the working poor and mobility up and down the economic ladder. She also has investigated the impact of tax policy on the poor, the history of public opinion on poverty policy, school violence, and the impact of globalization on young people in Italy, Spain, Japan and South Africa, among other issues.
Her most recent book is The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition (Beacon Press, 2012), which examines the deterioration of youth labor markets and the prolonged stay in the natal home that is unfolding as a result in Western Europe, Japan and the United States. Katherine Newman’s current research focuses on the first generation to come of age in democratic South Africa (in collaboration with Ariane Delannoy from the University of Cape Town) and on the labor market trajectories of graduates from low performing high schools in New York City (in collaboration with Hella Winston).
Loïc Wacquant is professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Legal Research, Boalt Law School, University of California at Berkeley, where he is affiliated with the Program in Medical Anthropology, the Global Metropolitan Studies Program, the Center for the Study of Race and Gender, the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, and the Center for Urban Ethnography. He is also a researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne in Paris.
Born and raised in Southern France, Wacquant was educated in Montpellier, Paris, and Chicago, where he received his Ph.D in Sociology in 1994 after earlier graduate studies in industrial economics and a research stint in the South Pacific island of New Caledonia. His interests span comparative urban marginality, ethnoracial domination, incarnation, the penal state, social theory and the politics of reason. (For an introduction to and overview of his work, see The Body, the Ghetto and the Penal State).
