Jennifer Bouek
Education
- Ph.D. – Brown University, Providence, RI
- M.A. – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- M.S. – University of Denver, Denver, CO
- B.A. – University of Denver, Denver, CO
Biography
Jennifer Bouek, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware and faculty affiliate at the Texas Policy Lab at Rice University. Her research examines the intersection of social inequality and the welfare state.
Her book, Everything is Broken: How the Childcare Market Creates Inequality (under contract with University of California Press), examines how the American childcare system contributes to inequality on two planes: among mothers at home and work, and to growing trends of economic inequality among households.
Bouek's work appears in outlets including the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, RSF: The Russell Sage Journal for the Social Sciences, and The Washington Post. She won the James Thompson Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association and the Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division Student Paper Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Sociological Association.
