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Jocelyn Viterna

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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...

Joscha Legewie

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Research interests:  Social inequality/stratification, education, race/ethnicity, quantitative methods, urban sociology, and computational social science.
 

Joscha Legewie is Professor of Sociology. He is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population...

Lawrence D. Bobo

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Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality.

 

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and...

Mary C. Waters

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Research Interests: Social demography; race and ethnic relations; social stratification.

Mary C. Waters is the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and the PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in the study of immigration...

Michèle Lamont

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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...

Orlando Patterson

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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...

Rakesh Khurana

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Research Interests: Corporate governance, accountability and social responsibility; labor markets; leadership; organizational behavior.

Rakesh Khurana is a Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Marvin Bower Professor of...

Robert J. Sampson

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

Robert J. Sampson is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor. He is also an Affiliated Research Professor at the...

Sam Donahue

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Research Interests: Political sociology, race/ethnicity, inequality, classifications, urban sociology.

Sam Donahue is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His research considers the nature and implications of group boundaries and...

Sandra Susan Smith

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

Smith's publications include Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor; The Criminal...