Eva Rosen

Eva Rosen is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. She will join the Russell Sage Foundation as a Visiting Scholar in 2022-2023. Rosen received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Social Policy. She has published papers in journals including the American Sociological Review, City & Community, Social Problems, Housing Policy Debate, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science. She is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. In 2018 she was recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received the 40 for 40 fellowship.

Rosen is interested in social inequality in the urban context. In particular, she studies poverty and American housing policy. Her research interests include: urban sociology, poverty and inequality, race and ethnicity, housing, ethnography, social policy, crime, and culture. Her book, The Voucher Promise, about urban inequality and housing vouchers was published by Princeton University Press in July 2020, and is the winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award.

Rosen’s work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation, HUD, The Joint Center for Housing Studies, The Furman Center, The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, The Massive Data Institute, The Institute for Research on Poverty, and The Meyer Foundation.