Dear RSF: 

Please join us next Wednesday, April 24th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for Visiting Guest Speaker Sarah Damaske’s presentation. 

Damaske is Professor of Sociology and Labor and Employment Relations at Pennsylvania State University, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Population Research Institute. She holds a PhD and an MA in Sociology from New York University, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Hamilton College. Damaske has authored three books, the most recent of which, The Tolls of Uncertainty (Princeton, 2021), was the 2023 winner of the American Sociological Association’s William J. Goode award. 

Damaske’s current research focuses on three primary areas of interest: gendered work-family constraints, employment precarities, and longitudinal employment patterns and midlife health disparities. She is working on a new book project with Adrianne Frech which aims to dispel common myths about women’s labor force participation. 

Damaske has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR, as well as featured stories in the Wall Street Journal, ABC Nightly News, and the BBC. She has also published in many academic journals, including Demography, The American Journal of Sociology, Work and Occupations, Social Forces, and Gender & Society.