Faculty
Jason Beckfield
jbeckfie@wjh.harvard.eduRobert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests: Stratification; health and social policy in the context of economic and political globalization. Jason Beckfield (he/him/his) is the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He took his PhD. in Sociology in...
Deirdre Bloome
dbloome@hks.harvard.eduProfessor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity, family demography, social policy, quantitative methods Deirdre Bloome is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Sociology, and a Faculty Member at the Harvard...
Lawrence D. Bobo
bobo@wjh.harvard.eduW. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard College Professor
Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality. Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and...
Christina Ciocca Eller
cceller@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies
On Leave 2026-27
Research Interests: Social inequality / stratification, Organizations, Education, Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Urban Sociology, Mixed Methods Research. Christina Ciocca Eller is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies (effective July 2019). She...
Frank Dobbin
frank_dobbin@harvard.eduHenry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Research Interests: Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification. Frank Dobbin received his BA from Oberlin College in 1980 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1987. Dobbin studies...
Sam Donahue
samuel_donahue@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Sociology
Research Interests: Political sociology, race/ethnicity, inequality, classifications, urban sociology. Sam Donahue is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research considers the nature and implications of group boundaries and...
Rakesh Khurana
rkhurana@hbs.eduProfessor of Sociology
Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development
Research Interests: Corporate governance, accountability and social responsibility; labor markets; leadership; organizational behavior. Rakesh Khurana is a Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Marvin Bower Professor of...
Michèle Lamont
mlamont@wjh.harvard.eduProfessor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies
Research Interests: Cultural sociology; inequality; race and immigration; comparative sociology; the sociology of knowledge; contemporary sociological theory. Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the...
Joscha Legewie
jlegewie@fas.harvard.eduDiker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Department Chair
Research interests: Social inequality/stratification, education, race/ethnicity, quantitative methods, urban sociology, and computational social science. Joscha Legewie is Professor of Sociology. He is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and...
Ya-Wen Lei
yawenlei@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Sociology
On Leave 2026-27
Research interests: Political economy, political sociology, economic sociology, sociology of work and labor, science and technology studies, law and society, sociology of media and information technologies, development, and Chinese studies Ya-Wen Lei is...
Ellis Monk
emonk@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Sociology
On Leave 2026-27
Research Interests : race/ethnicity in comparative perspective, skin tone & colorism, health, race/ethnicity & technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision), sociology of the body, social psychology & cognition, and...
Christopher Muller
muller@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Sociology
Research Interests: Inequality, Incarceration, Historical Sociology, Social Theory Christopher Muller is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the Harvard faculty in 2023. He...
