Patrick Sharkey
Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Sharkey leads Americanviolence.org—a project which maps fatal shootings in the United States. He is also the author of an Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (W.W. Norton, 2018). His first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2013) won the Mirra Komarovsky Award for the best book of the year from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work. Sharkey also received the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award given by the ASA’s Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section, the Roger Gould Prize given by the American Journal of Sociology, and the Jane Addams Award, given by the ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section.
