# News & Events ## expand\_more [### Symposium on Patterson's Paradox of Freedom Published ](/news/2026/06/symposium-pattersons-paradox-freedom-published) June 15, 2026 The European Journal of Sociology has published the remarks delivered at a panel discussion on the life and work of Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. This event took place at... ![Orlando Patterson](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2025-09/Orlando%20Patterson%20-%20Photo%20for%20Website.jpg.jpeg?itok=P3soM6JC) [### Ellis Monk awarded ASA Theory Section Award ](/news/2026/06/ellis-monk-awarded-asa-theory-section-award) June 08, 2026 American Sociology Association's Theory Section’s Lewis A Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting awarded to Professor Ellis Monk. Please see more about the award here . ![Ellis Monk](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2022-11-22_Dr.-Ellis-Monk_Harvard-University-002-2048x1152.jpg?itok=JAdEggaa) [### The Monk Skin Tone Scale now held in permanent collection of UK museum ](/news/2026/06/monk-skin-tone-scale-now-held-permanent-collection-uk-museum) June 02, 2026 Learn more about the Monk Skin Tone Scale, and the display at National Science and Media Museum Sound and Vision galleries. ![Monk skin tone museum display](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-06/monk%20scale_museum.jpeg?itok=rAgBrnYj) [### Ellis Monk's research highlighted in The Harvard Gazette. ](/news/2026/05/ellis-monks-research-highlighted-harvard-gazette) May 26, 2026 Lives saved by sociologist’s fix for skin tone bias. An answer to the dangers of colorblind healthcare. The Monk Skin Tone scale, devised in 2019 by Professor Ellis Monk, helps create more accurate medical diagnostic tools for patients with dark skin. ![Ellis Monk holding skin tone card](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-05/Ellis%20Monk.jpg?itok=s12Gt7Qm) [### 2026 Sociology Undergraduate Thesis Prizes and Academic Awards ](/news/2026/05/2026-sociology-undergraduate-thesis-prizes-and-academic-awards) May 26, 2026 The department would like to congratulate the following students for their outstanding thesis work and academic achievements during the 2026 academic year: Fulton Prize Each year the Albert M. Fulton, Class of 1897, Prize is presented to the senior who... description [### 2026 Sociology Undergraduate Thesis Prizes and Academic Awards ](/news/2026/05/2026-sociology-undergraduate-thesis-prizes-and-academic-awards-0) May 26, 2026 Students receive Fulton, Hoopes, Cummings, and Rose prizes for outstanding thesis work; Five students inducted to Phi Beta Kappa; Three students accepted to American Sociological Association 2026 Honors Program. Read more here. description [### Ya-Wen Lei awarded the Berlin Prize for the 2026–2027 academic year. ](/news/2026/05/ya-wen-lei-awarded-berlin-prize-2026-2027-academic-year) May 18, 2026 The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts... ![headshot of Ya-Wen Lei](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/sociology/files/lei_ya-wen.jpg?itok=E2-vaC8X) [### Ya-Wen Lei has been selected as a fellow at the French Institute for Advanced Study (FIAS) program ](/news/2026/04/ya-wen-lei-has-been-selected-fellow-french-institute-advanced-study-fias-program) April 09, 2026 The Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS), a research centre specialising in social sciences, humanities and related disciplines, will welcome eight international researchers this coming September for a ten-month research stay, selected under the... ![Ya-Wen Lei](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/sociology/files/lei_2021.jpg?itok=bUu68SFJ) [### Daniel Schneider appointed Associate Director of Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies ](/news/2026/02/daniel-schneider-appointed-associate-director-harvard-center-population-and) February 18, 2026 Daniel Schneider, PhD, the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, has been appointed the associate director of the Harvard Center for... ![Danny Schneider](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sociology/files/schneider_2.jpeg?h=6179b403&itok=lrbUTuYn) [### When the Chips Are Down ](/news/2026/02/when-chips-are-down) February 11, 2026 To understand why Xi is making these decisions, there is no better guide than the Harvard sociologist Ya-Wen Lei’s The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China . Her masterful study of what she calls China’s regime of “techno... ![lei_ya-wen_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/sociology/files/lei_ya-wen_0.jpg?itok=n8puY-q3) [### Robert J. Sampson discusses new book in The Gazette. ](/news/2026/02/robert-j-sampson-discusses-new-book-gazette) February 11, 2026 Professor Sampson's discusses his new book Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans. Read more here. Boston Globe has also reviewed Sampson's book in the IDEAS section: A surprising theory for... ![Sampson Book cover image](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Sampson%20Book%20cover%20image.jpeg?itok=5DvkqnYG) [### Joscha Legewie's research in transforming math education is awarded funds from Harvard Impact Labs ](/news/2026/02/joscha-legewies-research-transforming-math-education-awarded-funds-harvard-impact-labs) February 02, 2026 Transforming math education in low-resource settings: Millions of children in the U.S. and around the world lack foundational math skills, and teachers are often stretched too thin to provide the individualized instruction that students need. 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