Professors Alexandra Killewald and Devah Pager were selected as Radcliffe Institute Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. Hope Harvey will be a Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute.  See the list of fellows and read about their research here.... Read more about 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellows Selected

"[Sociology] may not have the ear of presidents but may actually do a better job of explaining what has gone wrong in large swaths of the United States and other advanced nations in recent years."... Read more about What if Sociologists had as much influence as Economists?

This fall, a new Harvard course has helped students become part of the effort to reform the nation’s criminal justice system.... Read more about Hard time gets a hard look

In a new study, published in the current issue of the American Sociological Review, I investigate how publicized cases of police violence against unarmed black men — most prominently the 2004 beating of Frank Jude by white police officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — affected 911 calls in Milwaukee. Coauthored with fellow...