Stefanie A. DeLuca

Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at the Johns Hopkins University, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. She conducts mixed-methods studies that combine qualitative research with experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Some of her work focuses on postsecondary transitions from school to work, and other work examines long-term effects of programs to help low-income families relocate to safer neighborhoods and better schools through housing vouchers.

She co-authored Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association and won the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association. Her work has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Spencer Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Abell Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Academy of Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Ewing and Marion Kauffman Foundation, among others. She contributes frequently to national and local media, including The Atlantic, Baltimore Sun, The Economist, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.

Stefanie has been invited to share her research to support policy recommendations at the federal level at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and has provided briefings and testimony for several state legislatures and in federal court on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD housing desegregation case. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Stefanie’s other awards and honors include the Publicly Engaged Scholar Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing, William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, and the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award. She is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.