Spring 2016

Andrea Louise Campbell, Department Head and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, MIT. * Note CGIS S-020 location this week. * When a car accident left her sister-in-law a quadriplegic, social policy scholar Andrea Campbell learned how...

Christopher Muller Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, Columbia University. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (beginning fall 2016). Co-authored by James Feigenbaum, Ph.D. candidate in Economics, Harvard...

Joshua S. Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. We explore whether initial college choice affects low-skilled students’ degree completion rates. Admission to Georgia’s public universities requires minimum SAT scores...

Suzanne Mettler, Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Government Department, Cornell University. Bridging Political Behavior and Policy Feedback Analysis Following E.E. Schattschneider’s famous observation that “a new policy creates a new...

Michael I. Norton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey...

Paul Pierson, John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley. The efforts of contemporary political scientists to understand American politics reveal a striking paradox. On the one hand, “Americanists” have documented a...

Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology , Harvard University. The growth of mass incarceration, which disproportionately affects African Americans, and the growth of the population of undocumented immigrants, which disproportionately affects...

Melissa S. Kearney, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland. It is widely documented that places with higher levels of income inequality have lower rates of social mobility. But it is an open question as to whether higher income inequality leads to...

Filiz Garip, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was...

David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University. View presentation slides About the speaker David R. Williams is...