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Allison Pugh is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and teaching focus on how powerful economic trends from job insecurity to automation shape the way people forge meaning, dignity and connection. Her fourth book The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton 2024) is a study of the standardization of work that relies on relationship, and recently won the 2025 best book award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). It has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Science and named to several “best of 2024” lists. The 2024-5 ASA Vice President, Pugh has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Berggruen Institute, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a visiting scholar in Germany, France and Australia.