Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 2007 (Sociology and Social Policy), Harvard University; B.A. 2000 (Public Policy and American Institutions), Brown University

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Research Interests:

Neighborhoods and communities; stratification and mobility; urban sociology; crime and violence; social policy.

Selected Works:

Sharkey, Patrick. “Neighborhoods and the Black-White Mobility Gap.”  Washington, D.C.: The Economic Mobility Project: An Initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.  Click here to read.

Sharkey, Patrick. 2008. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Context.” American Journal of Sociology 113:4, 931-969.  Click here to read.

         See also: “The inherited ghetto.”  Click here to read.

Sampson, Robert J. and Patrick Sharkey. 2008. “Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality.” Demography 45:1, 1-29.  Click here to read.

Sampson, Robert J., Patrick Sharkey, and Stephen Raudenbush. 2008. “Durable Effects of Concentrated Disadvantage on Verbal Ability among African-American Children.”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:845-852.  Click here to read.

See also: “Living in disadvantaged neighborhood equivalent to missing a year of school.”  Click here to read.

Sharkey, Patrick. 2007. “Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Black Studies, Special Issue on Katrina, Race, Class, and Poverty 37:482-501.           Click here to read.

Sharkey, Patrick. 2006.  “Navigating Dangerous Streets: The Sources and Consequences of Street Efficacy.” American Sociological Review 71:826-846.  Click here to read.

See also: “Adolescent criminal behavior partly a matter of choices.”  Click here to read.

Recent media coverage of research:

On neighborhoods and economic mobility:

National Public Radio’s “Tell me more” program. Click hear to listen. 

The Michael Eric Dyson show, 7/29/09 broadcast.  Click here to listen. 

The Kojo Nnamdi show.  Click here to listen. 

MacGillis, Alec. Washington Post, July 27, 2009.  “Neighborhoods Key to Future Income, Study Finds.” 

Click here to read. 

L.A. Times editorial, August 1, 2009. “The value of the neighborhood.”  Click here to read. 

On policy investments in neighborhoods:

Shulman, Robin.  Washington Post, August 2, 2009.  “Harlem Program Singled Out as Model.” 

Click here to read.  

On Sotomayor’s childhood neighborhood and public housing:

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