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: Social inequality / stratification, Organizations, Education, Race/Ethnicity, Culture, Urban Sociology, Mixed Methods Research.
Christina Ciocca Eller is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies (effective July 2019). She...
Research Interests: Inequality, Incarceration, Historical Sociology, Social Theory
Christopher Muller is Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the Harvard faculty in 2023. He...
Dahlia Showalter (she/they) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Dahlia uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to study illicit drug use and the legal, medical, and social institutions that manage it. Her first book project is...
Research Interests: Inequality, social policy, work, social demography
Daniel Schneider is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Sociology in FAS at Harvard University. He is co-director of The Shift...
Research Interests: race and gender stratification, labor markets, and economic and organizational sociology.
David Pedulla (he/him) is Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. His research agenda examines the processes...
Research Interests: inequality and mobility, race and ethnicity, family demography, social policy, quantitative methods
Deirdre Bloome is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Sociology, and a Faculty Member at 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...
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...
Research Interests: Stratification; health and social policy in the context of economic and political globalization.
Jason Beckfield (he/him/his) is the Robert G. Stone Jr. Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He took his PhD. in Sociology in 2005...
