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. Prior to graduate school, Ann worked at the Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work where her research focused on working families and the work-family balance. Her academic interests center around inequality in education, the family and neighborhoods. Her qualifying paper examined how school and neighborhood contexts jointly influence adolescents' achievement. Currently, Ann is working on several projects using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (with Rob Sampson). Her dissertation investigates the types of urban gentrification in the U.S. and the institutional forces behind it.

09/08/2009

Research Interests

Inequality and stratification, urban sociology, sociology of education, neighborhood effects, neighborhood change and gentrification, 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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