Director, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy Professor of Public Policy (HKS) Professor of Education and Economics (HGSE)
Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Sociology and Public Policy
We mourn the loss of Devah Pager, who served as Director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy and as Chair of Harvard's Joint PhD Programs in Social Policy until her death on November 2, 2018. We remember Devah with deep appreciation for the remarkable community she fostered.
Learn more about Devah's seminal work as a scholar in The New York Times obituary.
Research interests: Institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Inequality, race, discrimination, punishment.
Winner of the 2014 Charles Levine Memorial Prize for Best Book in Comparative Public Policy and Administration.
Christopher Adolph's dissertation, "The Dilemma of Discretion: Career Ambitions and the Politics of Central Banking," has won the 2005 Mancur Olson Award for best dissertation in political economy, given the by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association.... Read more about Christopher Adolph
James Bryant Conant University Professor Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
Research interests: Political theorist. Democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America.
Research interests: Applied economics. Intersection of race, education and government. Educational and political ramifications of acts of police violence. Effects of federal election oversight on minority turnout and political polarization.
Ph.D. in Sociology, 2017. Center for the Study of Inequality Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University, 2017-2019. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University (beginning 2019).
Christopher Bail's first book, 
