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Announcing the 2026 Stone Scholars and Wiener Scholars
Harvard's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy has awarded ten fellowships to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars and Wiener PhD Scholars. Stone Scholar Francisca Afantchao...

Welcoming Neil Cummins as the 2026-2027 Stone Visiting Scholar
Harvard's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has appointed Neil J. Cummins as the 2026-2027 Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Cummins is Professor of Economic...
Neil Cummins

Symposium on Patterson's Paradox of Freedom Published
The European Journal of Sociology has published the remarks delivered at a panel discussion on the life and work of Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. This event took place at...
Orlando Patterson

Avi Moorthy Wins William Julius Wilson Research Award
Stone PhD Scholar Avi Moorthy, who is graduating with a PhD in Public Policy, won the 2026 William Julius Wilson Research Award at HKS Class Day on May 27, 2026. The award is given by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy in recognition of an...
Avi Moorthy

Maya Sen Named 2026-2027 Radcliffe Fellow
Stone Program faculty affiliate Maya Sen, former director of the program from 2020 to 2024, has been named a 2026-27 Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Sen, a Professor of Public Policy at the...
Maya Sen

Gautam Nair and Akshay Dixit Win MPSA Awards
Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Gautam Nair and recent Stone PhD Scholar graduate Akshay Dixit, who have won more awards for their paper "Caste Reparations: Economic Advance, Social Concord, and Policy Backlash." They have received the...
Gautam Nair and Akshay Dixit

Claudia Goldin Wins Talcott Parsons Prize
Stone Program faculty affiliate Claudia Goldin, the Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is receiving the 2026 Talcott Parsons Prize from the...
Claudia Goldin

Desmond Ang Receives Sloan Research Fellowship
Stone Program faculty affiliate Desmond Ang, an applied economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, has received a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics. According to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
Desmond Ang

Welcoming the New Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellows

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy is excited to welcome the second cohort of Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellows. Sociologist Davis Daumler and political scientist Ritika Goel begin their fellowships in September 2025...
Davis Daumler and Ritika Goel

Announcing the 2025 Stone PhD Scholars

The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has awarded nine fellowships to a new cohort of Stone PhD Scholars conducting research on inequality across disciplines at Harvard. Brianna Alderman (Economics) is a 3rd year...