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Jason Beckfield

Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology

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

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Assistant: Genevieve Butler

Faculty Office Hours

550 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jbeckfie@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3895

Deirdre Bloome

Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology

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

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Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

dbloome@hks.harvard.edu

Lawrence D. Bobo

W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences
Harvard College Professor

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

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Department of African and African American Studies Faculty Page

Assistant: Kelly Deneen

1370 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

bobo@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-7778

Mary C. Brinton

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

On Leave for the 2022-23 Academic Year

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: Jess Viator

Faculty Office Hours

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

On Leave for the 2022-23 Academic Year

Research Interests: Social Movements, Family, Korean Studies

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

602 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

paulchang@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-8769

Christina Ciocca Eller

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies

On Leave for Fall 2022

Research Interests: Social inequality / stratification, Organizations, Education, Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Urban Sociology, Mixed Methods Research.... Read more about Christina Ciocca Eller

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

648 William James Hall
Harvard Sociology Department
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

cceller@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-384-0119

Christina Cross

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research interests: Families and children, race/ethnicity, social inequality, social demography, education.... Read more about Christina Cross

644 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street

crossc@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-384-0117

Frank Dobbin

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Sociology Department Chair

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

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Assistant: Jess Viator

Faculty Office Hours

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

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

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Assistant: Lisa Albert

Faculty Office Hours

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

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

On Leave for the 2022-23 Academic Year

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

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

410 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

jlegewie@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-998-0816

Ya-Wen Lei

Associate Professor of Sociology

Research interests: Political sociology, law and society, economic sociology, sociology of media and information technologies, sociology of work, labor and labor movements, science and technology studies, development, and Chinese studies

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

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

On Leave for 2023 Spring

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

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Assistant: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

630 William James Hall

pvm@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3823

Ellis Monk

Associate 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: Beth Varrichio

Faculty Office Hours

404 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

emonk@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-384-6775

Department of Sociology

Faculty

Jason Beckfield

Deirdre Bloome

Lawrence D. Bobo

Mary C. Brinton

Paul Y. Chang

Christina Ciocca Eller

Christina Cross

Frank Dobbin

Rakesh Khurana

Alexandra Killewald

Michèle Lamont

Joscha Legewie

Ya-Wen Lei

Peter V. Marsden

Ellis Monk

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