Dr. Mazelis is a recipient of a 2022 Public Sociology Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and the winner of the 2022 Michael Harrington Award from The Poverty, Class, & Inequality Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Selected op-eds, blog posts, and interviews:

• For The Hill on student debt and eliminating interest
• The Philadelphia Inquirer on the high cost of child care and the need for change
• For the Pennsylvania Capital-Star about the need for a raise in the minimum wage
• For The Society Pages by the Council on Contemporary Families about the challenges facing mothers during the pandemic 
• For The Society Pages by the Council on Contemporary Families about why some people don’t want to ask for help
• For The Hill about how the stigmatization of poor people leads to punitive and wasteful policies
• For The Philadelphia Inquirer about proposed 2019 budget cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development
• For The Washington Post to counter the idea that poor people can escape poverty with the right mindset
• For The Philadelphia Inquirer about the use of public space and neighborhood safety
• For Newsworks on proposed 2018 budget cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

• Dr. Mazelis was interviewed for the Scholars Strategy Network’s podcast No Jargon 
• Dr. Mazelis’s research was discussed in depth on Episode 23 of the Attached Podcast
• Dr. Mazelis wrote about her research for Families As They Really Are, a project of the Council on Contemporary Families
• Dr. Mazelis was interviewed about her book for The Society Pages by the Council on Contemporary Families
• Dr. Mazelis was interviewed on This is the Zero Hour With RJ Eskow
• Dr. Mazelis was a guest on The 1A on National Public Radio
• Dr. Mazelis was interviewed about her book for the New Books Network 

 

• Dr. Mazelis was quoted in:
  • this piece in the 19th about the eviction moratorium
  • this wallethub.com piece on “Neediest Cities” as a member of a panel of experts
  • this article in Politifact 
  • this article, this article, this article, this article, this article, this article, and this article in The Philadelphia Inquirer
  • this article in the Pennsylvania Capital Star
  • this article in PlanPhilly
  • this article in The Press of Atlantic City
  • this today.com piece
  • this wallethub.com piece on “2015’s Best and Worst States for Underprivileged Children” as a member of a panel of experts
  • this Courier-Post article