Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Pilar Gonalons-Pons is the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology. Dr. Gonalons-Pons studies how gender, work, families, and public policies structure economic inequalities, with a particular focus on how inequalities change over time and over the life course. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before coming to Penn in 2017, Dr. Gonalons-Pons was a post-doctoral fellow at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a Research Affiliate at the Cornell University Population Center. She has published articles in leading journals such as the American Sociological Review, Demography, and Socio-Economic Review, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Hewlett Foundation.