Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Email: pugh@jhu.edu
Topics of Expertise:
Children / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Economic Inequality / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Technology / Work & Family
Allison Pugh writes about how families, couples, and children adapt to economic trends such as insecurity, automation, commercialization, overwork, and risk. Her latest book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press 2024), documents how data analytics, automation, and AI threaten the relationships on which our social fabric depends. Prior books examined the broader impacts of job precariousness, including how it shapes our expectations of loyalty at home. She also writes about children and consumer culture, using ethnographic data to get beyond narratives of materialism and vice. Her research has been covered in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR’s Marketplace, and multiple other outlets.
