Awards

Luis Flores Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award

April 5, 2024

Sociologist Luis Flores, Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow, won a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, granted by the University of Michigan, for his dissertation “The Regulatory Politics of Home-based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage.” The award recognizes graduates with outstanding dissertations and for the significance and interest of their scholarship.

Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel Prize

October 25, 2023

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on October 9, 2023. The prize, according to the Nobel Prize press release, recognizes Professor Goldin "for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes." Professor Goldin became affiliated with the Stone Program when it was known as the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy. She has mentored many program affiliates, as discussed by students and colleagues...

Luis Flores Receives Awards at the American Sociological Association 2023 Annual Meeting

September 6, 2023

Congratulations to Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores, who has received the 2023 Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award from the ASA Comparative-Historical Sociology Section and the Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements for his paper, “Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation.” He also received an honorable mention for the Student Paper Award in the Community and Urban... Read more about Luis Flores Receives Awards at the American Sociological Association 2023 Annual Meeting

Welcoming the Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellows

August 10, 2023

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy is excited to welcome the first Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellows. Luis Flores and Shay O'Brien will begin their fellowships in September 2023.

Luis Flores is a recent doctoral graduate in sociology from the University of Michigan, and incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley (Fall 2025). Drawing on historical methods, his...

Q&A with Lucas Chancel

March 16, 2023

Harvard Kennedy School’s Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy welcomes Professor Lucas Chancel as the 2023-2024 Stone Visiting Scholar. Professor Chancel is an economist who specializes in inequality and in environmental policy. His work focuses on the measurement of economic inequality, its interactions with sustainable development and on the implementation of social and ecological policies. He is a tenured Associate Professor at Sciences Po and is the co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of...

Orlando Patterson Delivers Third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture

October 5, 2022

On September 29, 2022, Professor Orlando Patterson delivered the Third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture with a talk on Slavery and Genocide in William James Hall. The lecture was co-hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center's Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality and the Harvard University Department of Sociology. The Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture Series was launched in honor of Lee... Read more about Orlando Patterson Delivers Third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture

Stone Research Grant Supports A. Nicole Kreisberg's Book Project

October 5, 2022

Earlier this year, the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy awarded a Stone Research Grant to A. Nicole Kreisberg, the David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Dr. Kreisberg, a sociologist who studies immigrant inequalities in educational institutions and the labor market, recently provided an update on how the Stone Research Grant is supporting the development of her current project:

"The Stone Program Grant has been instrumental in assisting me to collect interviews for my...

Jane Mansbridge wins APSA 2022 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award

August 9, 2022

Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Emerita, has won the 2022 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, awarded annually by the American Political Science Association to honor an exceptional work by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication. The award recognizes Mansbridge's 1980 work, Beyond Adversary Democracy.

Harvard Honors William Julius Wilson with Honorary Degree

May 26, 2022

At its Commencement ceremony on May 26, 2022, Harvard University honored William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus, with an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree. Wilson co-founded Harvard's Inequality & Social Policy program in 1998 and is best known for his books The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (1978), The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), and When Work Disappears: The World of The New Urban Poor (... Read more about Harvard Honors William Julius Wilson with Honorary Degree

David Deming awarded Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics

May 11, 2022

David Deming, the Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, has been awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists. The biennial award recognizes scholars whose early work has made an impact in the field. Past recipients have included MIT’s Daron Acemoglu, the University of Chicago’s Marianne Bertrand, Harvard University’s Raj Chetty, and David Autor, visiting professor of public policy at HKS. For more information,...

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