Robyn Rowe

Robyn Rowe is a social researcher based in New York City. Her research focuses on health, labor, and social policies; care work; and multidimensional inequalities of gender, race, and class. She is especially interested in using qualitative and comparative historical methods to develop our understanding of how policies shape, and are shaped by, structural inequalities. Previous work has included policy advising on pensions and gender equality. She has also written about social and political theory, the politics of COVID-19, and colonialism and migration. Currently Robyn is an adjunct professor at Hunter College and City College CUNY. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes that include health policy, gender and public policy, global social theory, and global migrations. Robyn completed her PhD in 2017 at the London School of Economics. Her dissertation analyzed the changing politics and governance of social assistance and lone motherhood during the 20th century. She holds master’s degrees in social policy research and in European politics and government from LSE, and an MPhil in European history from the University of Oxford.