Faculty

Jason Beckfield

Professor of Sociology and Chair

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

Lawrence D. Bobo

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

Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality. Read more about Lawrence D. Bobo

Lawrence Bobo's Website

Department of African and African American Studies Faculty Page

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. Read more about Bart Bonikowski

Bart Bonikowski's Website

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

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

Mary C. Brinton's Website

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

Frank Dobbin

Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification. Read more about Frank Dobbin

Frank Dobbin's Website

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. Read more about Alexandra Killewald

Alexandra Killewald's Website

Assistant: Lisa McAllister

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.

Ya-Wen Lei

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research interests: political sociology, law and society, cultural sociology, economic sociology. Read more about Ya-Wen Lei

Ya-Wen Lei's website

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. Read more about Peter V. Marsden

Peter Marsden's Website

630 William James Hall

pvm@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3823

Devah Pager

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

Research Interests: Inequality, race, discrimination, punishment (On leave 2017-18) Read more about Devah Pager

Devah Pager's Website

Assistant: Laura Kistler

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. Read more about Orlando Patterson

Orlando Patterson's Website

Assistant: Laura Kistler

520 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

opatters@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3707

Robert J. Sampson

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences

Research Interests: Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course. Read more about Robert J. Sampson

Robert Sampson's Website

Assistant: Emily Briand

470 William James Hall

rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9716

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology

Research interests: American politics; political sociology; social revolutions; modern welfare states; comparative historical sociology. Read more about Theda Skocpol

Theda Skocpol's Website

CGIS Knafel Bldg, K416; 1737 Cambridge St.; Cambridge, MA 02138

skocpol@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0966

Department of Sociology