<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/sociology/people/faculty/katherine-sobering.html" dsn="people"><first_name>Katherine</first_name><last_name>Sobering</last_name><prefixes/><pronouns/><post_nominals/><title-1>Associate Professor</title-1><title-2>Director of Undergraduate Studies</title-2><title-3>Fields: Inequality, Work &amp; Organizations, Social Change, Political Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Ethnography  </title-3><title-4/><department>Sociology</department><type>Faculty</type><email>Katherine.Sobering@unt.edu</email><phone/><image><img src="/sociology/images/sociology.unt.edu/files/images/faculty/photos/sobering_updated.jpg" alt="Katherine Sobering"/></image><office> Sycamore 288A</office><address>Office Hours:<span> W 12-2 &amp; by appointment (Spring 26)<br/><br/></span></address><office-hours/><types><type>Faculty</type></types><departments><department>Sociology</department></departments><main-content>Education

Ph.D., 2018, University of Texas at Austin
 
Website

http://www.katherinesobering.com/
 
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 &amp; 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</main-content></item>