Joel Mittleman, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am a Faculty Research Associate in the Population Studies Center.

My research examines inequality in schools and society with a focus on gender. Applying statistical and machine learning methods to large-scale data sources, my research advances innovative new approaches to studying how gender matters in our lives and structures inequality in our societies.

My sole-authored research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, the American Journal of Public Health, Gender & Society, Sociology of Education, Socius, Social Science & Medicine: Mental Health, the Journal of Adolescent Health and Educational Researcher.

My research has won Outstanding Article awards from the Inequality, Poverty & Mobility, Sex & Gender, Sociology of Population, and Sociology of Education sections of the ASA as well as from the Sociology of Education Association. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the American Education Research Association.

I earned my PhD in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University, where I was a trainee in the Office of Population Research.