Faculty news

Harvard Kennedy School has announced that Sandra Susan Smith will co-chair the HKS' new diversity task force of faculty, staff and students.

Getting to Yes And.... has a timely conversation with Michele Lamont to discuss her new book “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World.”

Professor Jocelyn Viterna's research on the chilling effects of the ciminalization of abortion in El Salvador is featured on CNN health.

Professor Michèle Lamont discusses her new book, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works — And How It Can Heal a Divided World,” in the Harvard Gazette.

Professor Ya-Wen Lei was interviewed by CNBC, CNN, and Voice of America on China’s youth unemployment problem and "full-time children" .

Professors Christina Cross and David Pedulla have won ASA section Article of the Year prizes.Professor Cross won the American Sociological Association’s Family Section Article of the Year Award for her co-authored article “Interlinking structural racism...

The Harvard Gazette featured research conducted by Professor Rob Sampson and Postdoc Rebecca Bucci. Their study, Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort From Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021, has also been discussed...

Professor Ya-Wen Lei was asked to comment on the latest reminder of how Chinese food delivery apps continue to exploit their employees, Meituan couriers go on strike in Shanwei, on The China Project website. Lei's paper on China’s platform economy was...

The Academy announced newly elected members, including our own Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies.

Associate Senior Lecturer Shai Dromi was featured on the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) website, in the "Into Practice" newsletter, for how he engages with the campus community in his pedagogy.