University of North Texas 
Katherine Sobering
Sociology
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Fields: Inequality, Work & Organizations, Social Change, Political Sociology, Qualitative
Methods, Ethnography
Sycamore 288A
Office Hours: W 12-2 & by appointment (Spring 26)
Education
Ph.D., 2018, University of Texas at Austin
Website
Research Interests
Dr. Katherine Sobering is an ethnographer and expert in qualitative research methodology
whose work examines how inequality is produced and disrupted in everyday life. Much
of her current research and teaching focuses on issues in gender, work, and politics
in the contemporary U.S. and Latin America. Dr. Sobering's work has been published
by Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and the University of Texas Press,
in addition to appearing in journals likeQualitative Sociology,Social Problems, andWork & Occupations. She is also a faculty affiliate of theUNT Women's and Gender Studies program.
Selected Publications
Sobering, Katherine. 2022. The People's Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Auyero, Javier, and Katherine Sobering. 2019. The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. New York: Oxford University Press.
Scarborough, William J. Katherine Sobering, Ronald Kwon, and Mehr Mumtaz. 2021. "The Costs of Occupational Gender Segregation in the Innovation Economy." Socio-Economic Review.
Sobering, Katherine. 2019."The Relational Production of Workplace Equality: the Case of Worker-Recuperated Businesses
in Argentina."Qualitative Sociology. 41(4):543-565.
Sobering, Katherine. 2019."Watercooler Democracy: Rumors and Transparency in a Cooperative Workplace." Work and Occupations. 46(4):411-440.
Selected Grants
UNT Initiative for the Advancement of the Arts, 2022-2023
National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant, 2015
Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Argentina, 2015