Patrick Sharkey

Columbia University Health & Society Scholar, Cohort 5

Having completed his time as a scholar in Cohort 5 at the Columbia site, Pat Sharkey is now Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University with an affiliation at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service. Sharkey has a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard. His research focuses on stratification and mobility, with a specialized interest in the role that places and neighborhoods play in generating and maintaining inequality across multiple dimensions. One strand of his research seeks to describe and explain the persistence of neighborhood inequality in America’s cities, and the mechanisms by which this inequality persists over time and across generations of family members. A second strand of his work focuses on the consequences of persistent neighborhood inequality for the life chances of individuals from different racial and ethnic groups in America. This research involves incorporating the neighborhood environment into empirical models of economic and social mobility, and estimating the cumulative influence of neighborhoods on adolescent developmental outcomes and risk behaviors. In addition to a book manuscript nearing completion, Sharkey’s research has been published in The American Sociological Review, The American Journal of Sociology, Demography, The Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and The American Review of Public Administration.

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