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The department would like to congratulate six graduating seniors who received the 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. The Hoopes Prize is awarded to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research, usually in the form of a senior thesis...

Bernadette Blashill, Clayton Covington, and Siri Neerchal have each been awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellowship (NSF GRFP) in 2024. Hannah Craig (pictured) was awarded an NSF GRFP fellowship in...

Dean Lawrence Bobo was recently elected as Chair of the Board of American Institutes for Research. The American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the world’s oldest and largest behavioral and social science institutions. He is the first African...

Harvard Gazette discusses Christina Ciocca Eller's research in a paper published this month in the Journal of American Sociology. Ciocca Eller calls for new government and media ratings that measure how U.S. institutions of higher education shape the...

Ya-Wen Lei sat down with The Harvard Crimson to discuss her latest monograph, "The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China."

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Professor Dobbin discusses DEI in The Economist, How to cut through the cacophony over DEI and in the New York Times, Facing Backlash, Some Corporate Leaders Go ‘Under the Radar’ With D.E.I.

Lucy Tu (class of 2024), a double concentrator in Sociology and the History of Science with a secondary in Neuroscience has been awarded an American Rhodes Scholarship to begin study at the University of Oxford. Congratulations, Lucy!

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...

Associate Senior Lecturer Danilo Mandić's article entitled, Three Tales from Kharkiv: Ethnographic Fragments from the War in Ukraine, was published in Footnotes. It explores his field work in Ukraine and tells the destines of people enduring the Russian...