RESEARCH

ARTICLES

Sigrid Luhr. (2025). “’We’re Better than Most’: Diversity Discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area Tech Industry.” Social Problems. 72(1): 261-276.

• https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad014

  • Featured on the Contexts Blog

Sigrid Luhr. (2025). “‘You’re Really Stuck’: Housing Strategies and Compromises in the San Francisco Bay Area.” City & Community. 24(1):51-74.

• https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841241231492.​

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Sigrid Luhr. (2024). “Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and

Social Closure in Silicon Valley.”  American Journal of Sociology 129(5): 1409-1446. 

• https://doi.org/10.1086/729506

  • Featured on the Work in Progress Blog ​

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Sigrid Luhr, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. (2022). “Parenting without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(5): 24-44.

• https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.02.

  • Featured on the RSF Blog

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Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider, and Sigrid Luhr. (2022). “Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: The Association between Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements.” Social Problems 69(1):164-183.

• https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa020

  • Featured in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and Deseret News

  • Mentioned in the Schedules that Work Act (H.R. 5004)

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Sigrid Luhr. (2020). “Signaling Parenthood: Managing the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Premium in the U.S. Service Sector.” Gender & Society 34(2): 259-283. 

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243220905814.

  • ASA Family Section Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, 2022

  • James D. Thompson Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable Mention, ASA OOW Section, 2021

  • Herbert Blumer Prize, UC Berkeley, 2020

  • Featured on the Gender & Society Blog and Podcast

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Sigrid Luhr. (2018). “How Social Class Shapes Adolescent Financial Socialization: Understanding Differences in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues 39(3): 457-473.

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-018-9573-8.

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Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Anne Gauthier, Roberta Iversen, Sigrid Luhr, and Laura Napolitano. (2018). “Caught In Between: Neoliberal Rhetoric and Middle-income Families in Canada and the United States.” Journal of Family Studies. 24(2): 170-186. 

• https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13229400.2016.1141111

Dani Carrillo, Kristen Harknett, Allison Logan, Sigrid Luhr, and Daniel Schneider (2017). “Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector." Social Service Review 91(3): 422-455. (Equal authorship).

• https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/693750

  • Breul Memorial Prize for Best Article Published in Social Service Review in 2017 (Finalist)