Anna Haskins

Dr. Anna R. Haskins’ research examines how three of America’s most powerful social institutions—the education system, the family, and the criminal legal system—connect and interact in ways that both preserve and mitigate social inequality. Her work has been published in academic journals such as American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociological Science, Criminology, Sociology of Education and Social Science Research, among other scholarly outlets, and she is co-editor of the book – When Parents are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children (2018, APA Press). Haskins’ current projects qualitatively explore meso-level processes through which schools inhibit or promote institutional engagement among system-involved families, as well as studying more complicated intersections between schooling and punishment such as college-in-prison programs.

 

Anna is a former elementary school teacher and a William T. Grant Foundation, Ford Foundation, and National Science Foundation funded scholar. Currently, Dr. Haskins serves as co-Investigator (with Kathy Edin and Jane Waldfogel) for the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study and as co-Editor-in-Chief (with Bill Carbonaro) of the American Sociological Association’s journal, Sociology of Education. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, the Initiative on Race and Resilience, the Institute for Latino Studies, and Notre Dame Population Analytics. Dr. Haskins is on sabbatical for the 2026-2027 academic year.