Eva Rosen

Graduate Student in Sociology and Social Policy

Biographical Note

Eva graduated from Barnard College in 2005 with a BA in Political Science and French and Francophone Studies. Before graduate school, she worked at the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University, conducting research on topics including public housing and relocation in Chicago, gangs, the informal economy, and prisoner reentry. While there, Eva conducted ethnographic research with sex workers in Chicago, examining sex work as a supplement to, or replacement for low-wage labor, as part of strategy to make ends meet.

Since coming to Harvard, Eva has been involved with several research projects, including Professor Mary Waters' study of low-income mothers before and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as the ten-year qualitative review of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) in Baltimore with Professor Kathryn Edin. Eva's research interests include ethnographic methods, neighborhood effects, urban sociology, cultural sociology, migration, and crime and re-entry.

Eva received her MA in Sociology from Harvard University in 2010. Her qualifying paper uses data from the PHDCN to examine heterogeneity in how residents experience disorder in Chicago neighborhoods. Her dissertation looks at Baltimore neighborhoods with high rates of section 8 voucher concentration that have arisen in the wake of public housing demolition.

01/03/2012

Research Interests: Ethnographic methods, neighborhood effects, urban sociology, cultural sociology, migration, and crime and re-entry.

Previous Degrees: MA, Sociology, Harvard University, 2011
BA, Political Science & Francophone Studies, Barnard College, 2005

Teaching Experience
Sociology 99	Senior Thesis Workshop	Instructor
Sociology 190	Medicine and Disease in Social Context	Teaching Fellow
Sociology 128	Methods of Social Science Research	Head TF, Teaching Fellow
Sociology 145	Urban Social Problems	Teaching Fellow

Qualifying Paper Title: “Unpacking Perceptions: Heterogeneity in the Construction of Disorder Among Whites, Blacks, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans in Chicago”

Prospectus Title: “The End of Poverty of the Emergence of the Horizontal Ghetto: Post-Public Housing Spatial Concentration and Young Adult Transition in Baltimore”

Presentations and Publications

With Sudhir Venkatesh. "A Perversion of Choice: Sex Work offers Just Enough in Chicago’s Urban Ghetto."	Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Vol. 37, No. 4, 417-441.	2008
With Sudhir Venkatesh. "Legal Innovation and the Control of Gang Behavior"	Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Volume 3.	2007

Miscellaneous Additional Information

Grants Received: Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Research Grant
Harvard Merit/Graduate Society Term-time Research Fellowship
Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Grant
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Research Grant