Annette Lareau

Advisory Board Member

Annette Lareau is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies how class and race matter in the transmission of advantage across generations. She is the author of the award-winning books Unequal Childhoods and Home Advantage. Most recently, she published a book on qualitative methods: Listening to People. Her latest book with Blair Sackett, We Thought It Would be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America will be published by University of California Press in 2023.

Background

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of California Berkeley

  • BA (with highest honors) University of California, Santa Cruz

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology

  • University of Maryland

  • Temple University

  • Southern Illinois University

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • President, American Sociological Association

  • Chair, Sociology of the Family Section

  • Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association

  • Work written up by Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers and David Brooks, New York Times

Connect

Email: alareau@sas.upenn.edu

Philadelphia, PA