Awards

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...

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...

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...

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...

The American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility has awarded the 2022 William Julius Wilson Early Career Award to former fellows Christopher Muller and Ann Owens. Christopher Muller is Assistant Professor of Sociology at...

The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood by former fellow Eva Rosen (Associate Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy) has won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award of the American Sociological...

Former Stone PhD Scholar Anna Stansbury, current Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2021 Dissertation Award from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Her dissertation, " Essays...

Awardee | Cleleste Watkins-Hayes PhD 2003 is the recipient the 2021 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association for her book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality (University of California...

Ashley Craig, PhD 2019 in Economics and a Stone PhD Scholar alumnus, has been awarded the International Institute of Public Finance Young Economist Award for his paper, “Optimal Income Taxation with Spillovers from Employer Learning.” Ash Craig is now an...

Benjamin Schoefer PhD 2015 is one of 128 early-career scholars selected for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship. The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the...