Eva Rosen

Eva Rosen is assistant professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Her research is focused on social inequality in the urban context. In particular, she studies the intersection between poverty and American housing policy.

Rosen’s forthcoming book, The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” Housing and the Fate of an American Neighborhood, will be out in June 2020. The book considers recent changes in American housing assistance that have transformed the landscape of ghetto poverty from predominantly high-rise public housing to a voucher system where the poor are housed in the private market. Her ethnography of a Baltimore neighborhood examines the residential decisions and everyday lives of homeowners, renters, and the landlords who house them, in contexts of scarcity, violence, and instability. Current work examines low-income housing and the role that landlords play in four urban housing markets. Another ongoing project maps eviction trends in the District of Columbia with sociology professor Brian McCabe.

Rosen was recently named one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars, and received their 40 for 40 fellowship.She is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network, and has published papers in academic journals including the American Sociological Review, City & Community, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Rosen’s work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation, The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), The Joint Center for Housing Studies, The Furman Center, The Meyer Foundation, and The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, among others. She received her doctorate in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University.

Education

• Harvard University - Ph.D., Sociology
• Barnard College - B.A.