Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Research interests: Gender inequality, education, labor markets, economic sociology, Japanese society, and comparative sociology.
Brinton's research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to study institutional change and its effects on individual action, particularly in labor markets and in education.
PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2015. Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution. Senior Fellow, Urban–Brookings Tax Policy Center.
Vanessa Williamson is the co-author, with Theda Skocpol, of The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, which examines how the Tea Party pushed the Republican Party farther to the right.Oxford University Press (2012).
Selected one of the ten best political books of the year by The New Yorker.
PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2013. Director of Research, Analyst Institute.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 2013-2016.
Miya Woolfalk leads a team of research managers and analysts who design, implement and analyze research projects on a wide range of topics. Her substantive expertise and primary interests are in civic engagement and voter mobilization, with a focus on the political behavior of racial and ethnic groups.
AM in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007. Teacher and Author, Concord Academy.
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte is the author of Black Marks(Akashic Books, 2006). She was awarded the Astraea Emerging Writer Award in 2006 and was a finalist for A Room of Her Own's Gift of Freedom Award in 2007.