Awards

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Christopher Muller, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, who has received a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins the Guggenheim Foundation's 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. According to The...

Congratulations to Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Shay O'Brien, who is a co-winner of the 2025 Socio-Economic Review (SER) Best Paper Prize for " The Family Web: Multigenerational Class Persistence in Elite Populations," which appeared in Volume 22...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, who has received the 2024 Hegel Prize. The Hegel Prize is awarded every three years by the City of Stuttgart and the Hegel...

Daron Acemoglu, who delivered the 2024 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality on September 17 (pictured), and James Robinson, who spoke in the Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar on September 30, are co-winners (with Simon...

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has awarded research grants to support fifteen projects in its latest round of Stone Research Grants. The Stone Research Grant system is designed to support...

Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores is the recipient of the 2024 Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. The award recognizes the best dissertation in the discipline among those nominated by advisers and department chairs...

Stone Program faculty affiliate Michéle Lamont has won the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology , which honors exceptional achievement in and contributions to the field and profession of sociology. "With her path-breaking comparative research on culture, social...

Harvard Kennedy School's Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy has appointed economist David Weil as the 2024-2025 Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor of Public Policy. He is the Stone Program's third Stone Visiting...

Congratulations to Stone PhD Scholar Akshay Dixit, a PhD candidate in Political Economy & Government, who has been named a 2024-2025 Radcliffe Institute Graduate Student Fellow. Stone Program faculty affiliates Gabrielle Oliveira and Sandra Susan Smith...

Sociologist Luis Flores, Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow, won a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, granted by the University of Michigan, for his dissertation “The Regulatory Politics of Home-based Moneymaking After the American Family Wage.”...