Jennifer Sherman's research looks at the ways in which job loss, poverty, and inequality affect individuals and families, particularly in rural U.S. communities. She is author of the 2009 book, Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, and co-editor of the 2
...MoreJennifer Sherman's research looks at the ways in which job loss, poverty, and inequality affect individuals and families, particularly in rural U.S. communities. She is author of the 2009 book, Those Who Work, Those Who Don't, and co-editor of the 2017 volume, Rural Poverty in the United States, which won the Rural Sociological Society's Frederick H. Buttel Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award for a Book in 2018. She has authored articles on topics including rural poverty; rural education; surveillance of low income parents; the impacts of the Great Recession on low-income families; relationship struggles amongst the poor; and the growth of inequality in high-amenity rural communities. Her forthcoming book, Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream, is under contract with University of California Press for publication in 2020.
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Tourism and Leisure Studies
