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About
Rachel Ellis received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. Using qualitative methods, her research focuses on inequality and incarceration, particularly with respect to gender, race, class, and religion. Her book project is based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison. Rachel’s most recent project is an interview study of women’s reentry.
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Education/Academic qualification
Sociology, PhD, University of Pennslyvania
… → 2017
Sociology, MA, University of Pennslyvania
… → 2012
Sociology and French, BA, Georgetown University
… → 2010
Research Interests
- Prison
- Incarceration
- Ethnography: Participant Observation
- Qualitative Research: Interviews
Disciplines
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Joseph H. Fichter Research Grant
Association of the Sociology of Religion
1/1/14 → 1/1/14
Project: Research project
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Philip E. Goldfein Research Award
Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania
1/1/11 → 1/1/11
Project: Research project
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Underpaid and Unprotected: Prison Labor in the Age of Coronavirus
Ellis, R., Apr 2020, In: Contexts.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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"It's Not Equality": How Race, Class, and Gender Construct the Normative Religious Self Among Female Prisoners
Ellis, R., Jun 22 2018, In: Social Inclusion. 6Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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In This Place Called Prison: How Religion Structures the Social World of Incarcerated Women
Ellis, R., Jan 1 2017Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Silent Disagreement: Microinteractional Solutions to Moral Dissent among Catholic Converts
Ellis, R., 2017, In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 56Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Outreach and Exclusion: Jewish Denominational Marketing in the Early 20th Century
Ellis, R., 2015, In: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 54Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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Constant H. Jacquet Research Award, Religious Research Association, 2014
Ellis, Rachel (Recipient), 2014
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Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies, 2016-2017
Ellis, Rachel (Recipient), 2016
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Gertrude and Otto Pollak Summer Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2013-2014
Ellis, Rachel (Recipient), 2013
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Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012-2015
Ellis, Rachel (Recipient), 2012
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Hoggson Award for Excellence in Sociology, Georgetown University, 2010
Ellis, Rachel (Recipient), 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)