Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, January 28th, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Researcher Judith Levine, “What Income Masks: Rethinking College as a Great Equalizer.”
Levine is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Public Policy Lab, an inter-disciplinary research center, in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University. She formerly served as Chair of the faculty board of review of Temple University Press.
Her work addresses social inequality with a focus on poverty and social welfare policy, work precarity, and the relationship between family background and socioeconomic well-being. She is the author of Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters (University of California Press), based on interviews with low-income mothers before and after welfare reform.
She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a BA in Sociology from Harvard University. Levine won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (2023).
At RSF Levine is working on a book examining how college seniors transition to employment. Drawing on 280 interviews with over one hundred college seniors at an urban university in the Northeast, she is comparing the experiences of first-generation and continuing-generation college students and examining how the transition to employment varies for first-generation college students by race, ethnicity, and gender.