Faculty

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: Jess Viator

Faculty Office Hours

William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

p: 617-495-3707

David Pedulla

Professor of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests: race and gender stratification, labor markets, and economic and organizational sociology.

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Assistant: Lisa Albert

Faculty Office Hours

David Pedulla's website

William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

dpedulla@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3879

Robert J. Sampson

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor

Research Interests: Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course.
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Assistant: Lisa Albert

Faculty Office Hours

William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9716

Daniel Schneider

Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Inequality, social policy, work, social demography

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Harvard Kennedy School Website

Shift Project Website

Faculty Office Hours

Harvard Sociology
William James Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138

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

dschneider@hks.harvard.edu

David Showalter

Assistant Profesor of Sociology

David Showalter is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. David uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to investigate how place,...

Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology

Research interests: American politics; political sociology; social revolutions; modern welfare states; comparative historical sociology.

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Theda Skocpol's Website

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

skocpol@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0966

Sandra Susan Smith

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Sociology
Faculty Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute

Research Interests: Urban poverty and joblessness, social capital and social networks, and the front end of criminal case processing....