Isabel Jijon is a cultural sociologist who studies work, inequality, childhood, and globalization. Her research is comparative and focuses on Latin America and the global South. Broadly speaking, she is interested in how people create, develop, and...
Research Interests: Inequality, Social Policy, Labor and Social Movements, Crime and Punishment.
Adaner Usmani is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Studies, effective July 1, 2025. His research is driven by some simple questions about the...
Research Interests: race/ethnicity in comparative perspective, skin tone & colorism, health, race/ethnicity & technology (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision), sociology of the body, social psychology & cognition, and...
The Contemporary Studies of Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) workshop's purpose is to provide a forum to disseminate knowledge and facilitate dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars working on or interested in research about contemporary...
Research interests: Political economy, political sociology, economic sociology, sociology of work and labor, science and technology studies, law and society, sociology of media and information technologies, development, and Chinese studies
Ya-Wen Lei is...
Research Interests: Stratification; Race and Employment; statistical methods.
Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a...
Research Interests: Gender, politics, law, health, social mobilization, reproductive justice, abortion criminalization, violence, Central America
Jocelyn Viterna is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research examines how social...
Research Interests: The origins, history and culture of freedom; the comparative study of slavery and ethno-racial relations; the sociology of underdevelopment with special reference to the Caribbean; the problems of familial relations in the black...
Research Interests: Cultural sociology; inequality; race and immigration; comparative sociology; the sociology of knowledge; contemporary sociological theory.
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the...
Research Interests: Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification.
Frank Dobbin received his BA from Oberlin College in 1980 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1987. Dobbin studies...
