Ann Owens

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Ann Owens received her BA in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2004. Ann worked at the Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work at the University of Chicago before beginning the Sociology and Social Policy program at Harvard. Her academic interests center around inequality as it relates to education, neighborhoods, and the family. Her qualifying paper examines neighborhood effects on adolescents' likelihood of high school graduation. She has written on such topics as Hispanic education, the educational consequences of adolescents' experiences of stereotyping in the classroom, how working families spend time at home, how family structure affects child outcomes, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood with respect to educational and occupational goal attainment. In Spring 2008, Ann will begin a qualitative project examining how adolescents experience their neighborhoods and how schools mediate or exacerbate neighborhood effects.

10/25/2007

Research Interests

Sociology of education, inequality and stratification, neighborhood effects, sociology of the family, work-family research

Previous Degrees

2004 - BA, Sociology - University of Chicago

Contact

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617-496-5794 (FAX)

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