Mo Torres returns to the Ford School (he graduated with his MPP in 2015) as one of six University of Michigan Society of Fellows for a three-year appointment. He will work closely with the Center for Racial Justice. Torres is a historical...
A former foreign minister to Mali, a leading educational economist, a tech entrepreneur who explores indigenous technoscience are among the outstanding new faculty that add depth to the Ford School and connect student education, rigorous academic...
In a return to her alma mater, Ford School interim dean Celeste Watkins-Hayes visited Spelman College to elevate the visibility of the Ford School at the nation’s top-ranked Historically Black College and to strengthen the relationship between the...
Nearly one-quarter of adults age 25 and older in the United States experience transportation insecurity, meaning they are unable to move from place to place in a safe or timely manner.
The Transportation Security Index, a novel measure of...
New Ford School sociologist Celeste Watkins-Hayes works at the intersection of inequality, public policy, and institutions, with a special focus on urban poverty and race, class, and gender studies. Her most recent book Remaking a Life: How Women...
By David Pratt
A family = Mom + Dad + kid(s). Many researchers and policymakers still treat this as the standard.
But Christina Cross (PhD ’19) knows a different reality. One she has lived.
Cross, a 2019 graduate of the Ford School’s joint...
On April 22, 2019, U-M’s Sociology Department announced many of its students had won competitive fellowships for the 2019-2020 year, including Ford School joint-doctoral student Jasmine Simington. Simington is the recipient of the National Science...
Christina Cross, a member of the Ford School’s joint-PhD program with sociology, earned recognition from two sociological societies for her paper, “Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Family Structure and Children’s Educational...
While the longest government shutdown in United States history has ended, many of the 800,000 furloughed federal government employees may have to continue to cope with the devastating effects of temporary unemployment. In her January 24, 2019...
In her study published in Population Studies, a journal of demography, Christina Cross a doctoral candidate at the Ford School of Public Policy and UM’s Sociology Department, expounds upon the trends and consequences associated with the effects of...
This Sunday's print edition of the Washington Post included an opinion piece penned by joint doctoral student Jessica W. Gillooly. The post, titled "Want to stop more Starbucks scenarios? Train these people." suggested that 911 operators have a key...
Join the Center for Racial Justice in welcoming Dr. Enobong (Anna) Branch, senior vice president for equity at Rutgers University, to discuss her latest publication, Work in Black & White: Striving for the American Dream.
Louise Seamster, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowapresent as part of the Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series.
Join professor Frederick Wherry in this discussion about how dignity and respect affect consumers' engagements with and responses to debt. Wherry will share about his work to understand and empower the linkages between lending and human values.
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)
Free and open to the public. Join in the conversation on Twitter #eddispartiites About the roundtable: This seminar will feature speakers from sociology, psychology and economics giving their perspectives on the causes, consequences and potential solutions to the problem of educational disparities in the United States. Each speaker will discuss their own work as it relates to educational disparities in the United States, also drawing on existing work from the field that has bearing on this topic.
This program features some of the best scholars of interest groups, policy advocacy, and social movements in the country. The papers presented span three disciplines (Political Science, Economics, Sociology) and include work that is experimental, formal, historical, comparative, qualitative, and quantitative. They deal with a number of topics, including corporate and nonprofit advocacy, health and environmental policy, and campaign finance.
Degree Requirements for the Public Policy & Sociology PhD Program
** Note that some requirements may change after the time of publication. Similarly, it is likely that not all courses described below are offered each semester. It is the...
