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The Department of Sociology at Harvard has a rich and varied history. Its faculty are deeply committed to the development of sociological theory in the service of addressing fundamental sociological questions about the empirical world. The Harvard department of the 21st century is characterized by unsurpassed methodological breadth and depth, with faculty and students engaged in a variety of approaches to research including surveys, ethnography, in-depth interviews, big data, social demography, causal inference, and historical archival work. Deep engagement with central social issues in the American landscape such as racial inequality, gender discrimination, violence, and mass incarceration is coupled with expertise in political, economic, and social and cultural issues in other parts of the world such as Latin America, Asia, and Europe. We invite you to explore sociology at Harvard.
News and Faculty Research Spotlights
Jonathan Mijs (PhD '17) has work on meritocracy cited in Spanish newpaper.
Advice to students: Enact your agency, build resilience
Frank Dobbin's research featured in NYT
Orlando Patterson discusses new research on Indigenous people of the Caribbean
Ezra F. Vogel, eminent scholar of East Asia passed away.
Rob Sampson’s research is featured in NYT
AAPI COVID-19 Project covered in Vox
Cherrie Bucknor's research is featured by GSAS
Orlando Patterson's modern world featured in The Nation
COVID has robbed us of impromptu contacts that help keep us happy.
Orlando Patterson to receive Jamaica's Order of Merit
Alum Anthony Jack Receives Multiple Awards and Recognitions for "The Privileged Poor"
Blythe George featured in the Harvard Gazette
Christina Cross wins four major prizes from the ASA
Victoria Asbury received the SSSP Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Cresa Pugh Receives 2020 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates
Ethan Raker wins the Ana Aguado Prize, and ASA Political Sociology Graduate Student paper award
Faculty Spotlight: Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 on Higher Education Inequality in the United States
Brianna Castro wins Mitigation Matters Grant and JCHS Support Grant
Allison Daminger is a co-winner of the ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Graduate Student Paper Award
Faculty Spotlight: More Than Just Race: Skin Tone and the Criminal Justice System