Kristen Harknett received her PhD in Sociology and Demography from Princeton University in 2002, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at UC Berkeley from 2002 to 2004. She served on the faculty of the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania before assuming her current position at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research and teaching interests include unstable work schedules and worker health and well-being, kin and social support, family demography, quantitative methods, and policy evaluation.

Email : kristen.harknett@ucsf.edu