Urban Poverty and the City

The Neighborhood Effect

November 5, 2012

25 years after William Julius Wilson changed urban sociology, scholars still debate his ideas. Is anyone else listening?

2013 Apr 18

Informal Reading Group Discussion - Urban Social Processes Workshop

4:30pm to 6:00pm

An Urban Social Processes Workshop informal reading group discussion

William James Hall 601

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

On Leave for Spring 2023

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

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Christopher Winship's Website

Assistant: Genevieve Butler

Faculty Office Hours

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, Emeritus

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

On Leave for the 2022-23 Academic Year

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

Mary Waters's Website

Assistant: Jess Viator

Faculty Office Hours

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

On Leave for the 2022-23 Academic Year

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

Faculty Office Hours

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

Faculty Office Hours

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

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

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Michèle Lamont's Personal Website

Michèle Lamont's Scholar Page

Assistant: Lisa Albert

510 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-496-0645