Matthew Kaliner
(Sociology, March 2014)
Thesis Title: Art, Crime, and the Image of the City
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), William Julius Wilson, and Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Lecturer in Sociology, Wellesley College
Committee: Robert J. Sampson (Chair), William Julius Wilson, and Christopher Winship
Initial Placement: Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University
Current Position: Lecturer in Sociology, Wellesley College
I graduated from Brandeis University in 2000 with a BA in Sociology, then worked as an archivist at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for three years, before pursuing my PhD in Sociology at Harvard University. I completed my doctorate in the Fall of 2013, and stayed on at Harvard as a Lecturer in Sociology through Fall 2017, ultimately teaching over a thousand students in sociology and general education. I was thrilled to join Wellesley as a Visiting Lecturer in the fall of 2017 and return as a full time lecturer from fall 2018, teaching courses in Sociology and Writing through spring of 2021.