Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Christopher Muller

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 Harvard Gazette, Muller "will use the funds to study long-run patterns in the incarceration rates of Black and white Americans, from the Reconstruction era (1865-1877) to the present. The project aims to further clarify the relationship between slavery, peonage, and incarceration. By documenting Southern planters’ influence over local courts, Muller’s research helps make sense of puzzling facts, such as why the Black incarceration rate was lower in the South than in the North for much of the 20th century — and why it was lowest in the South’s cotton belt, where slavery predominated."