Eva Rosen is a Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. She uses ethnography, qualitative, and mixed methods to study poverty, racial inequality, and American housing policy in the urban context. In 2022-2023 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. Rosen received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Social Policy. She is a member of the Scholar Strategy Network. In 2018 she was recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars and received the 40 for 40 fellowship.

Her recent edited volume, with Brian McCabe, called The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives, was released in 2023 with Chicago University Press. Her first book, The Voucher Promise, about housing insecurity and housing vouchers was published by Princeton University Press in July 2020, and is the winner of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association and the Paul Davidoff Book Award from the ACSP. She is currently finishing a new book, coauthored with Phil Garboden, called American Landlords, about how landlords shape the low-end rental market. She has published papers in journals including the American Sociological Review, City & Community, Social Problems, Housing Policy Debate, The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and The Annual Review of Sociology.

Rosen's work has been funded by: The National Science Foundation, HUD, The Joint Center for Housing Studies, The Furman Center, The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, The Massive Data Institute, The Institute for Research on Poverty, and The Meyer Foundation.