Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.
Winner of the...
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012.
State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, 2020. Awarded for her research on the connections between economic insecurity, relationship instability...
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Inequality, University of Rio de Janeiro (on leave from 2016).
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, 2012-2014.
Sabrina Pendergrass is currently working on a book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, about the African American reverse migration to the South.
Winner of the Exemplary...
Winner of the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History by the New York Academy...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 2011-2013.
One of 41 recipients of the first wave of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships, awarded to early career researchers in any field of research and innovation...