Jessica Calarco honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowship
Jessica Calarco is a professor of Sociology, the vice president-elect of the American Sociological Association, a non-resident fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and an expert on qualitative methods and on the role that privilege and power play in shaping inequalities in education and family life.
Calarco has published four books, including “Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net,” “Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research” (with Mario Small), “Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School,” and “A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum.” Calarco is also an active public scholar, with frequent contributions to outlets like MSNOW, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
The H.I. Romnes Fellowship recognizes faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.