Irene Browne
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Institute for Women's Studies
Emory University
at time of fellowship
1995 to 1996
Irene Browne, assistant professor of sociology at the Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University, co-authored a chapter on "Social Isolation and Atlanta's African-American Poor" for the Atlanta volume of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. She examined the growing joblessness and earnings gap experienced by African American and Hispanic women, convening an authors' conference for a book she is editing on this topic.