#  Patrick Sharkey 

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.

Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://www.patricksharkey.net) 

 

 



 

   
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University, 2007-2009.

   ![Uneasy Peace, by Patrick Sharkey](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/sharkeybk18.jpg?itok=R-3CkWGi) 

 

Patrick Sharkey's second book,Uneasy Peace: [The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, ](https://books.wwnorton.com/books/Uneasy-Peace/)has been published by W.W. Norton (2018). *Winner of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.*

 *Straus Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, 2013-2014.*

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Patrick Sharkey's first book,[ Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality](http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo14365260.html), has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2013). *Winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.*

 *Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2014.*

 *Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2013.*

 *Winner of The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, 2013.*

 *Patrick Sharkey has been named one of four new William T. Grant Scholars, 2010-2015. The program identifies and supports promising early-career researchers in the behavioral and social sciences with five-year research awards.*

 *Winner of the Roger Gould Prize for berst article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in the American Journal of Sociology, 2010.*

 *Co-winner of the Jane Addams Award for best article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in urban sociology, Communithy and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology and Social Policy](/alumni-department/sociology-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2007](/alumni-year/2007)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)