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Jennifer Hook

Florence Everline Professor of Sociology and Professor of Sociology
Jennifer Hook
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email hook@usc.edu Office HSH 314 Office Phone (213) 740-3533

Research & Practice Areas

Family Demography, Gender, Inequality, Work-Family, Social Policy, Comparative Sociology

Center, Institute & Lab Affiliations

  • USC Center for the Changing Family,

Biography

Jennifer L. Hook (Ph.D. University of Washington, 2006) is the Florence Everline Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her research areas include gender stratification, family demography, work-family policy, and comparative sociology. Her research examines how social contexts affect gendered divisions of work and care in the US and Europe, including women’s employment, fathers’ time with children, and the division of household labor.  Her recent publications appear in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and the European...

Education

  • Ph.D. Sociology, University of Washington, 2006

  • Tenure Track Appointments

    • Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2021 –
    • Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2015 – 2021
    • Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, 2012 – 2015

  • Research Specialties

    Family Demography, Gender, Inequality, Work-Family, Social Policy, Comparative Sociology

    • Elected to the Sociological Research Association, 2022-2023
    • IPUMS Time Use Research Award , 2022-2023
    • Finalist for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, 2021-2022
    • USC Mellon Mentoring Award for Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students, 2019-2020
    • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Recipient, Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2018-2019
    • Aldi J.M. Hagenaars Memorial Award (best 2015 LIS Working Paper written by a scholar under the age of forty) for “Incorporating Class into Work-Family Arrangements: Insights from and for Three Worlds” LIS Working paper #639, subsequently published in the Journal of European Social Policy, 2015-2016
    • USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, General Education Teaching Award, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2014-2015
    • Princeton University’s Industrial Relations Section’s Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics for 2009, 2009-2010
    • Finalist for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research , 2006-2007
    • ASA Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award , 2005-2006
    • ASA Section on the Sociology of the Family Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award , 2005-2006
    • Fulbright Award, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004-2005
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