Katherine Sobering
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Office: Sycamore 288A
Office Hours: Tu 1:00-3:00 and by appointment
Highlights: Inequality, Work & Organizations, Social Change, Political Sociology, Qualitative
Methods, Ethnography
Education: Ph.D., 2018, University of Texas at Austin
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 like Qualitative Sociology, Social Problems, and Work & Occupations. She is also a faculty affiliate of the UNT Women's and Gender Studies program.
Selected Publications:
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