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On the Run is the story of sociologist Alice Goffman’s six years of immersion in a struggling Philadelphia neighborhood, in which she tells the stories of the “routine stops, searches, raids, and ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! When last we heard of Alice Goffman, the Penn alum whose undergrad field project became ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Last year, Alice Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an ...

Alice Goffman, a University of Wisconsin sociologist, has gained much praise for her new book On the Run. For her research, Goffman spent a great deal of time on the inner-city stoop, where young ...

Alice Goffman’s star fell almost as fast as it rose a few years back, as sociologists divided over her controversial book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, and allegations that it ...

It’s no surprise that Pomona College’s decision to hire Alice Goffman as a visiting professor would raise some eyebrows. The young sociologist drew both widespread admiration and broad criticism for ...