Princeton University

Katherine Newman joins the Princeton faculty with a joint appointment in Sociology and the Woodrow Wilson School. She has previously taught at Columbia, Berkeley, and Harvard where she founded the doctoral program in sociology and social policy. Her interests lie in the qualitative study of social stratification, with a special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty, and violence. Professor Newman enjoys working with teams of doctoral students and coauthors papers and books with her students on a regular basis. She is presently finishing a book entitled "Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market," which will complete her eight year study of African American and Latino service sector workers. Her publications include Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (2004), A Different Shade of Gray: Mid Life and Beyond in the Inner City (2003), No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (1999), Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence (2nd edition, 1999), and Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream (1993).

Email: knewman@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-8723
Fax: 609-258-2809
Address:
151 Wallace Hall
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013