Faculty

Jason Beckfield

Professor of Sociology
Sociology Department Chair

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

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Assistant: Genevieve Butler

550 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbeckfie@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3895

Lawrence D. Bobo

W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Chair, Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard College Professor

Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality.

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Assistant: Emily Briand

1370 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

bobo@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-7778

Bart Bonikowski

Associate Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Political sociology; culture; comparative and historical sociology; social networks; stratification; organizations; quantitative methods.

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

636 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

bonikowski@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-5029

Mary C. Brinton

Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology
Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research Interests: Gender inequality; labor markets and employment (Europe, East Asia, United States); social demography; mixed methods; economic sociology; Japanese society.

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Assistant: Michael Van Unen

580 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

brinton@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5821

Paul Y. Chang

Associate Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Social Movements, Family, Korean Studies

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

602 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

paulchang@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-8769

Frank Dobbin

Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification.

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Assistant: Michael Van Unen

530 William James Hall 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138

frank_dobbin@harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9091

Rakesh Khurana

Professor of Sociology
Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development
Dean of Harvard College and Co-Master of Cabot House

Research Interests: Corporate governance, accountability and social responsibility; labor markets; leadership; organizational behavior...

Alexandra Killewald

Professor of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests: Gender, family processes and inequality; social mobility; occupations; quantitative methods.

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Assistant: Lisa Albert

438 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

killewald@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3818

Michèle Lamont

Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies

Research Interests: Cultural sociology; inequality; race and immigration; comparative sociology; the sociology of knowledge; contemporary sociological theory.

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Assistant: Lisa Albert

510 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0645

Joscha Legewie

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research interests: Social inequality/stratification, education, race/ethnicity, quantitative methods, urban sociology, and computational social science.

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

410 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jlegewie@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-998-0816

Ya-Wen Lei

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research interests: political sociology, law and society, cultural sociology, economic sociology.

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

436 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

yawenlei@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5160

Peter V. Marsden

Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Social networks; formal organizations; social stratification; methods.

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

630 William James Hall

pvm@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3823

Ellis Monk

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: race; inequality; comparative sociology; health; sociology of the body; social psychology; cognition; political sociology; theory.

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Assistant: Deborah De Laurell

404 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

emonk@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-384-6775

Devah Pager

Professor of Sociology
Professor of Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School)

Research Interests: Inequality, race, discrimination, punishment.

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Assistant: Lisa Albert

420 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

devah_pager@harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0824

Orlando Patterson

John Cowles Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: The culture and practice of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; the sociology of underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean; the problems of gender and familial relations in the black societies of the Americas; the ways that cultural processes relate to poverty and other social outcomes.
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Assistant: Michael Van Unen

520 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

p: 617-495-3707

Department of Sociology

Faculty

Jason Beckfield

Lawrence D. Bobo

Bart Bonikowski

Mary C. Brinton

Paul Y. Chang

Frank Dobbin

Rakesh Khurana

Alexandra Killewald

Michèle Lamont

Joscha Legewie

Ya-Wen Lei

Peter V. Marsden

Ellis Monk

Devah Pager

Orlando Patterson

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