Ann Owens received her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University in 2012. Her teaching and research interests include urban sociology, sociology of education, social stratification and inequality, social policy, sociological research methods, sociology of the family, and sociology of crime and punishment. Her dissertation examined the implications of housing policy for neighborhood poverty in the U.S. from 1977 to 2008.
Ann will be a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality for the 2012-13 academic year.
Beginning in the fall of 2013, Ann will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California.