Jason Beckfield

Research Interests: Stratification; health and social policy in the context of economic and political globalization.

Jason Beckfield (he/him/his) is the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He took his PhD. in Sociology in 2005 at Indiana University in Bloomington and later taught at the University of Chicago before joining the Harvard faculty in 2007. At Harvard, he leads the Climate Sociology Lab, which studies the social lives of climate change, including energy transitions in indigenous and coastal communities, the social processes of decarbonizing transportation systems, and the distributional dimensions of mitigation, resilience and adaptation.