Awardee | Hope Harvey, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy
Hope Harvey, a Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, is one of ten doctoral students selected nationwide to participate in the University of Pennsylvania's Summer Institute on Inequality, which will be held May 26-June 3, 2015, on the Penn campus.
The Summer Institute on Inequality brings together graduate students in the pre-dissertation stages of their work to discover new topics and refine their dissertation research interests in the area of inequality. Organized by historian Thomas Sugrue (University of Pennsylvania) and sociologist John Skrentny (University of California, San Diego), the program features interdisciplinary workshops led by a variety of scholars. Among this year's faculty participants: Stanford sociology professor Tomás Jiménez (Ph.D. '04), himself an alumnus of the Harvard Inequality & Social Policy program.
Hope Harvey's primary research interests include poverty, family sociology, housing, and access to social programs. Her recent research includes qualitative in-depth interviews to explore what life is like for parents and children living doubled-up, or in a shared home, as well as a quantitative study of the cumulative effects of family structure on child outcomes.