Kristin L. Perkins Joint Center for Housing Studies Harvard University 1 Bow Street, Suite 400 Cambridge, MA, 02138 kristin_perkins@harvard.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, 2017-2019 EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy, May 2017 A.M. in Sociology, May 2013 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Master of City Planning, May 2008 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Science with Honors in Urban and Regional Studies, May 2005 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Perkins, Kristin L. Accepted. Changes in Household Composition and Children s Educational Attainment. Demography. Perkins, Kristin L. 2017. Household Complexity and Change among Children in the United States, 1984 to 2010. Sociological Science. 4: 701-724. Perkins, Kristin L., Michael J. Lear and Elyzabeth Gaumer. 2017. Concentrated Foreclosure Activity and Distressed Properties in New York City. Urban Affairs Review. 53(5): 868-897. Perkins, Kristin L. 2017. Reconsidering Residential Mobility: Differential Effects on Child Wellbeing by Race and Ethnicity. Social Science Research. 63: 124-137. ASA Section on Children and Youth Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, 2014 Desmond, Matthew and Kristin L. Perkins. 2016. Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders? City & Community. 15(2): 137-162. Desmond, Matthew and Kristin L. Perkins. 2016. Housing and Household Instability. Urban Affairs Review. 52(3): 421-436.
Kristin L. Perkins 2 Perkins, Kristin L. and Robert J. Sampson. 2015. Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 1(1): 35-54. Sampson, Robert J., Robert D. Mare, and Kristin L. Perkins. 2015. Achieving the Middle Ground in an Age of Concentrated Extremes: Mixed Middle-Income Neighborhoods and Emerging Adulthood. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 660(1): 156-174. Perkins, Kristin L. 2007. The Future of Limited Equity Cooperatives. Cornell Real Estate Review. 5: 1-5. http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/crer/vol5/iss1/11/ Perkins, Kristin L. 2007. Roosevelt and Rexford: Resettlement and its Results. Berkeley Planning Journal. 20: 25-42. INVITED PUBLICATIONS and BOOK REVIEWS Perkins, Kristin L. 2009. The Geography of Foreclosure in Contra Costa County, California. Community Development Working Paper 2009-03. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Perkins, Kristin L. 2008. A Snapshot of Foreclosure in Contra Costa County. Center for Community Innovation, University of California, Berkeley. Perkins, Kristin L. 2008. The Local Side of Foreclosure. Berkeley Planning Journal. Volume 21. pp. 193-196. Perkins, Kristin L. 2008. Won t You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles. Berkeley Planning Journal. Volume 21. pp. 217-219. Perkins, Kristin L. 2007. Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary. Berkeley Planning Journal. Volume 20. pp. 150-153. ACADEMIC HONORS and FELLOWSHIPS Graduate Society Research Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2016). American Sociological Association, Section on Children and Youth, Graduate Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention) (2014). Doctoral Fellow, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, Harvard University (2011-2017). Buckley Scholarship, Harvard-Manchester Summer Workshop on Hard Times: The Social and Political Consequences of Global Recession (2011). Perry Family Fellowship for Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University (2010-2012). Presidential Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2010): Awarded to 25 incoming Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences.
Kristin L. Perkins 3 Michael B. Teitz Fellowship, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley (2008): Awarded to students pursuing rigorous research on issues affecting people underrepresented in urban planning. College of Environmental Design Alumni Association Professional Promise Award, University of California at Berkeley (2008): Awarded to one graduating Master of City Planning student. California Planning Foundation Continuing Student Scholarship (2007): Awarded to one continuing Master of City Planning student as selected by faculty for outstanding academic performance. Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University (2005): Awarded to one percent of graduating seniors for outstanding scholastic achievement, demonstrated leadership ability, and great potential for contributing to society. Community Service Award, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University (2005). SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 2013) Perkins, Kristin. 2018. Compounded Change: Residential Mobility and Changes in Household Composition. Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Denver. Perkins, Kristin. 2017. The Effect of Changes in Household Composition on Children s Educational Attainment. Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago. Perkins, Kristin. 2015. Have American Families Become Less Stable? Trends in Household Changes from 1984-2010. Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, San Diego. Desmond, Matthew and Kristin Perkins. 2015. Are Voucher Holders Being Overcharged? Annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Miami. Perkins, Kristin and Robert J. Sampson. 2014. Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood. Russell Sage Foundation conference on Severe Deprivation in America. Desmond, Matthew and Kristin Perkins. 2014. Housing and Household Instability. Annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston. Perkins, Kristin. 2013. Reconsidering the Effects of Residential Mobility on Child Mental Health. Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York. Perkins, Kristin. 2013. Reconsidering the Effects of Residential Mobility. Annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco. Perkins, Kristin and Tracey Shollenberger. 2013. Fertility Expectations and the College- Childbearing Relationship. Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston.
Kristin L. Perkins 4 ADDITIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE How Parents House Kids (PIs Stefanie DeLuca and Kathryn Edin), Summer 2013, recruited and interviewed parents about their housing and school choices in metropolitan Cleveland, OH. Explaining Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies (PI Mary Brinton), 2012-2013, recruited and interviewed over 40 young adults about their partnership and fertility intentions in New York, NY. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Senior Thesis Advisor to Jasmin Salazar, Sociology (2017) Teaching Fellow, Sociology 99: Senior Tutorial, Professor Rachel Meyer (2015) Teaching Fellow, Sociology 156: Quantitative Methods in Sociology, Professor Alexandra Killewald (2014) Teaching Fellow, Sociology 150: Neighborhood Effects and the Social Order of the City, Professor Robert J. Sampson (2013) Teaching Fellow, Sociology 254: Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty, Professor William Julius Wilson (2013), Awarded Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Teaching Fellow, African and African American Studies 115: Urban Inequality and The Wire, Professor William Julius Wilson (2012) ACADEMIC SERVICE Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (2015-2016) Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (2013-2014) Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (2011-2012) Editorial Staff, Volumes 20 and 21 of the Berkeley Planning Journal, University of California at Berkeley (2007-2008) Faculty Search Committee, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley (2006-2007) President, Organization of Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University (2004-2005) OCCASIONAL REVIEWER American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; Berkeley Planning Journal; Demography; Emerging Adulthood; Housing Policy Debate; Preventive Medicine Reports; Social Forces; Social Science Research
Kristin L. Perkins 5 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, New York, NY Program Evaluator, Housing Policy Research and Program Evaluation, August 2008-June 2010 California Department of Housing and Community Development, Sacramento, CA Graduate Student Assistant, Summer 2007 Telesis Corporation, Washington, DC Assistant Project Manager, July 2005-July 2006