Stefanie DeLuca

Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, and Research Principal at Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. She is the co-author of Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association and received the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association.

Her research has been supported 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, Gates Foundation, and the Department of Education. She has also received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellowship and a William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award.

DeLuca’s work is regularly featured in national media, including The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at HUD and was recently named Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing.

She has shared her research to inform policy at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services, and has provided briefings and testimony for state legislatures and in federal court in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD desegregation case. Additional honors include the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2021 Publicly Engaged Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association, and election to the Sociological Research Association.