Discipline(s):
Sociology

Area(s) of Expertise:
Neighborhoods and Communities, Stratification and Mobility, Urban Sociology, Crime and Violence, Social Policy

E-Mail:
pts1@nyu.edu

Background:
Patrick Sharkey comes to the Health and Society Scholars program having completed a joint Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy at 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. Sharkey will join the department of Sociology at New York University as an Assistant Professor upon completion of the Health and Society Scholars Program.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Patrick Sharkey's available publications in PubMed.