Awards

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Gautam Nair and recent Stone PhD Scholar graduate Akshay Dixit, who have won the Best Paper on Economic and Social Inequality prize from the American Political Science Association's Class and Inequality...

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...

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has appointed economist Lisa Lynch as the 2025-2026 Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor of Public Policy. She is the Stone Program's fourth Stone...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Taeku Lee, the Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2025. Taeku Lee is a leading expert on racial and ethnic...