Faculty

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...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Deirdre Bloome has been appointed Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy. Professor Bloome serves as the Peter and...

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.”...

Stone Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor Lucas Chancel co-organized the Inequality and the Environment Symposium for Early-Career Researchers, held at Sciences Po on January 18, 2024. Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Shay O'Brien presented research...

Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores has published " Zoning as a Labor Market Regulation " in Theory & Society, arguing that zoning emerged not only as a property regulation but from contests over emerging labor markets, revealing intersections...

Congratulations to Stone Program faculty affiliate Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on October 9, 2023. The prize, according to the Nobel Prize press...

Congratulations to Stone Program Postdoctoral Fellow Luis Flores, who has received the 2023 Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award from the ASA Comparative-Historical Sociology Section and the Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Labor and Labor...

Harvard Kennedy School’s Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy welcomes Professor Lucas Chancel as the 2023-2024 Stone Visiting Scholar. Professor Chancel is an economist who specializes in inequality and in environmental...

On September 29, 2022, Professor Orlando Patterson delivered the Third Lee Rainwater Memorial Lecture with a talk on Slavery and Genocide in William James Hall. The lecture was co-hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center's Stone Center on Socio-Economic...