2013 Apr 01

Tim R. Sass - Value Added of Teachers in High Poverty Schools and Lower Poverty Schools

12:00pm to 1:45pm

Inequality and Social Policy Seminar presentation by Tim R. Sass, Economics, Georgia State University.

Taubman 5th floor, 79 JFK Street

2013 Mar 14

Monica Bell and Eva Rosen

4:30pm to 6:00pm

An Urban Social Processes Workshop presentation by Monica Bell on "Crippled Motherhood: Disadvantaged Families and the Calculated Risk of State Supervision" and Eva Rosen on "The Rules of the Game: Landlords and the Geographic Sorting of Voucher Holders"

William James Hall 601

2013 Mar 07

Lizbeth Cohen and screening of "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" documentary

4:30pm to 7:30pm

An Urban Social Processes Workshop presentation by Lizbeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a screening of "The Pruitt-Igoe Myth" documentary. Dinner will be served.

William James Hall 601

Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: Stratification; Race and Employment; statistical methods.

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Christopher Winship's Website

Assistant: Genevieve Butler

620 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

cwinship@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-9821

William Julius Wilson

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor

Research Interests: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy.

William Julius Wilson's Website

Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program

79 JFK Street
Harvard Kennedy School
Cambridge, MA 02138

bill_wilson@harvard.edu

p: 617-496-4514

Mary C. Waters

John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology
PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests: Social demography; race and ethnic relations; social stratification.... Read more about Mary C. Waters

Mary Waters's Website

Assistant: Jess Viator

540 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

mcw@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3947

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.
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Robert Sampson's Website

Assistant: Lisa Albert

470 William James Hall

rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-9716

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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Orlando Patterson's Website

Assistant: Jess Viator

520 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

p: 617-495-3707

Michèle Lamont

Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies
Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

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

On Sabbatical for AY 2019-2020

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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