Awardee: Monica Bell, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy
Inequality Fellow Monica Bell, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, begins a two-year fellowship this year as a Harvard Law School Climenko Fellow. Climenko Fellows are "promising legal scholars with high academic achievements and a strong interest in teaching." The fellows teach in the Harvard Law School First-Year Legal Research and Writing program and devote themselves to scholarship in preparation for entry into an academic career.
Bell's research interests focus in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice policy, property law and housing policy, family structure and family law, poverty law, urban and community sociology, culture, and qualitative methods. For Bell, "though these interests are multiple, they coalesce around the goals of understanding persistent poverty, illuminating sources of resilience, and identifying potential legal and policy interventions to help resolve the issues identified."
Bell earned her J.D. at Yale Law School in 2009, where she was an Arthur Liman Public Interest Legal Fellow before beginning her Ph.D. work at Harvard.
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