université John Hopkins

Researcher Kathryn Edin left the ivory tower for the streets of Camden—and turned sociology upside down. —Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Kathryn Edin, Joe White, and his daughter Janasia Photos by Mustafah Abdulaziz A sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, Edin is one of the nation’s preeminent poverty researchers. She has spent much of the past several…