Loren Beard is a Harvard College Fellow who received their PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2025. Their research leverages quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the social and structural determinants of child and family well...
Sarah J Halford received her PhD from Brandeis University in 2024. She studies social movements, culture, and media, with special interests in mis/disinformation, institutional distrust, conspiracy theories, and online movements. Her research explores the...
I am interested in inequality, culture, health, family, and the sociology of food. My research examines how parents across the socioeconomic spectrum decide what to feed their children at a time of growing income inequality and increasing dietary disease...
Joseph Wallerstein received his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University in 2024. He studies homelessness and housing, nonprofits and philanthropy, and organizational behavior. Currently, he is working on a book and articles based on his dissertation, a...
Research Interests: Civil Society and Social Movements, Political Psychology, Public Opinion, Social Policy & the Welfare State, State-Society Relations, State & Local Politics, Voter Behavior
Stephanie Ternullo is Assistant Professor of Government. Her...
Liz McKenna is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at HKS. She is a political sociologist whose research focuses on how civil society can both enable and constrain democracy. She uses multiple methods—ethnographic, interview, geospatial, and social...
Research interests: Gender, Identity, Research methods, Inclusion and belonging in higher education
Dr. Fairchild is Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies. She was previously Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at New College of...
Isabel Jijon is a cultural sociologist who studies work, inequality, childhood, and globalization. Her research is comparative and focuses on Latin America and the global South. Broadly speaking, she is interested in how people create, develop, and...
Research interests: Economics, social inequalty, public policy, quantitative methods
Raj Chetty is the William A. Ackman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He is also the Director of Opportunity Insights (formerly the Equality of Opportunity...
Research Interests: Development, global health, geographic analysis, India.
S V (Subu) Subramanian is a Professor of Population Health and Geography at Harvard University, and chair of the Faculty Advisory Group for the Center for Geographic Analysis at...
