#  Great American City 

 



  
*We were not authorized to record this event, but those interested in learning more may enjoy these related materials:*

- [Listen to Robert J. Sampson's podcast interview with *The New York Times* ](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/science/lessons-in-community-from-chicagos-south-side.html?_r=1&)  
    ("Hanging Out in Chicago," Jan 8, 2013).
- [Thomas J. Sugrue's review in Public Books](http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/great-american-city) (Sept 5, 2012).
- C*ity & Community*: [“Symposium on Robert J. Sampson's *Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect*”](http://www.asanet.org/journals/CC/MAR13CCFeature.pdf) (March 2013, 12:1-31). Featuring essays by Nancy Denton, Claude Fischer, John Goering, John Hagan and Wenona Richmond-Ryder, and Robert J. Sampson.

  
A panel discussion with the author

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**Robert Sampson**  
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences  
Department of Sociology,Harvard University.

*Featuring analysis by*

**Kathryn Edin** Professor of Public Policy and Management  
Harvard Kennedy School.

**Thomas Sugrue** David Boies Professor of History and Sociology  
University of Pennsylvania.

**Edward Glaeser** Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.  
Harvard University

**Edward Davis** Commissioner, Boston Police Department.

Moderated by **William Julius Wilson*,*** the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.

*[**Great** ***American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect***](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo5514383.html)* University of Chicago Press, 2012.

- Winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (2014), American Sociological Association.
- Winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award (2013), American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Section
- Winner of the William Alonso Memorial Prize (2013), North American Regional Science Association
- Winner of the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholarship Award (2013), American Sociological Association, Crime, Law and Deviance Section.

[Read an excerpt from the book.](http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2012/sampson_great_american_city.html)[  
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An event of the [Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener), held April 30, 2012, at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Co-sponsors:

- [Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/inequality)
- [Department of Sociology](http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/)
- Joblessness and Urban Poverty Program
- [Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/programs/criminaljustice)
- [Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/rappaport)
- [Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/)



 

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