Research Interests:  inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity, family demography, social policy, quantitative methods

Deirdre Bloome is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Sociology, and a Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Her research takes a demographic approach toward investigating how patterns of social inequality are produced and reproduced. Her work has focused on the relationships among socioeconomic inequality, mobility, and insecurity; the historical evolution of racial inequalities in the family and economy; and statistical methods for characterizing population heterogeneity. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan.