Hope Harvey wins SSSP student paper award

August 12, 2018

Hope Harvey won an award for her paper, “Economic Exchange and Relational Work within Doubled-up Households."... Read more about Hope Harvey wins SSSP student paper award

Joseph Wallerstein wins SSSP student paper award

August 12, 2018

Joseph Wallerstein won an award for his paper, "Streets of Pity: Urban Panhandling and the Valorization of Misfortune."... Read more about Joseph Wallerstein wins SSSP student paper award

Charlotte Lloyd selected as Radcliffe Fellow

August 9, 2018

Doctoral candidate Charlotte Lloyd was one of three graduate students selected to be a Radcliffe Institute Graduate Student Fellow for 2018-19.... Read more about Charlotte Lloyd selected as Radcliffe Fellow

Activists signs express support for immigrant community at a rally to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA Downtown Portland, OR, on September 5th, 2017.

Integrating Immigrants

August 9, 2018

In a presentation on Integrating Immigrants given at the University of California, San Diego, Mary C. Waters paints a comprehensive and compelling picture of the immigrant experience in the United States. ... Read more about Integrating Immigrants

Hilary Holbrow joins the Undergrad Program

August 2, 2018

Hilary Holbrow has joined the Harvard Sociology as Interim Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, effective August 1.... Read more about Hilary Holbrow joins the Undergrad Program

A tribute to Stan Lieberson

July 24, 2018

Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts & Sciences and the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology pays tribute to the late Stanley Lieberson, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Research Professor, in the June-August 2018 volume of ASA footnotes, newsletter of the American Sociological Association.

Monica Bell discusses Baltimore's estranged youth on Veritalk podcast

July 20, 2018

Monica Bell (PhD graduate in Sociology & Social Policy and current faculty at Yale Law School) talks with Anna Fisher-Pinkert about youth in Baltimore, the police, and what it means to be "legally estranged" in the conclusion of Veritalk's three-part podcast series on displacement.... Read more about Monica Bell discusses Baltimore's estranged youth on Veritalk podcast

Cresa Pugh on displaced Rohingya Muslims

July 6, 2018

Cresa Pugh, a PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy, has traveled to Northern Rakhine state, where more than 140,000 Rohingya Muslims live in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.... Read more about Cresa Pugh on displaced Rohingya Muslims

Alumni news

June 25, 2018

Alvaro Santana Acuña (Ph.D. 2014) was interviewed by The New York Times about his award-winning research on the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'... Read more about Alumni news

Mary Brinton stands in front of a building on Harvard's Cambridge campus.

Brinton appointed Reischauer Institute director

June 15, 2018

Mary C. Brinton was appointed as the new Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, which supports research on Japan and provides a forum for related academic activities and the exchange of ideas. She will begin a three-year term on July 1. Read more about Brinton appointed Reischauer Institute director

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