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Richard Mora

Richard Mora

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2009.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Occidental College.


Donald Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Outstanding Teacher, Occidental College, 2017.

Winner of the Linda and Tod Whilte Teaching Prize, Occidental College, 2014. 

Daniel Moskowitz

Daniel Moskowitz

PhD in Political Science, 2019.
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.


Patrick J. Fett Award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the presidency presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2020.

Evan Ringquist Award for the best paper on political institutions presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2020.

David A. Moss

David A. Moss

Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration


Research interests: Economic policy and especially the government's role as a risk manager. Institutional and policy history, financial history, and political economy.

Moss's most recent work focuses on issues of government regulation, economic inequality, and democratic governance.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy
Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study


Research interests: Historian. Racial criminalization in modern U.S. history and origins of the carcereal state. Race and social justice.

Christopher Muller

Christopher Muller

PhD in Sociology, 2014.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, Columbia University, 2014-16.

Winner of the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association Comparative-Historical Section, 2019.  For "Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South," American Journal of Sociology 124: 367-405.

Winner of  IPUMS Spatial Research Award, 2018.

Winner of the Larry Neal Prize (joint with James Feigenbaum) for best article in Explorations in Economic History, 2017.

Outstanding Professor, Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association, 2017,

Winner of the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, 2015.

Winner of the Roger V. Gould Prize for best article in the American Journal of Sociology, 2014.

Richard J. Murnane

Richard J. Murnane

Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Research Professor of Education and Society


Research interests: Economist. Ways in which growth in family income inequality in the U.S. has affected educational opportunities for children from low-income families, and the effectiveness of alternative strategies for improving life chances for these children.

Nozomi Nakajima

Nozomi Nakajima

PhD student in Education Policy and Program Evaluation
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Ayushi Narayan

Ayushi Narayan

PhD student in Economics
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Gesemia Nelson

Gesemia Nelson

PhD in Sociology, 2004.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Kadeem Noray

Kadeem Noray

PhD student in Public Policy
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration
Michael I. Norton

Michael I. Norton

Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration


Research interests: Psychologist. Effects of social norms on people’s attitudes and behavior, addressing the key role that social factors play in shaping the preferences of individuals. 

In the domain of behavioral economics, the psychology of investment: How investing time, labor, and money impacts how people come to value things, from products to people.

Bikila Ochoa

Bikila Ochoa

PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2009.
JD, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Deputy Director, The Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Melanie Penny Ochoa

Melanie Penny Ochoa

PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2011.
JD, Harvard Law School, 2010.
Staff Attorney, ACLU of Southern California.


Melanie Penny Ochoa is a staff attorney for Criminal Justice and Police Practices at the ACLU of Southern California.

Chika Okafor

Chika Okafor

PhD student in Economics
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration