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Jennifer Sykes

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2011.
Associate Professor of Social Relations and Policy, James Madison College, Michigan State University.

It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, co-authored by Sarah Halpern-Meekin '09, Kathryn Edin,, Laura Tach '10, and Jennifer Sykes '11, has been published by the University of California Press (2015).

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Sandip Sukhtankar

PhD in Political Economy and Government, 2009.
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Virginia.

Winner of the 2014 American Economic Journal Best Paper Award for "Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect," joint with Paul Niehaus.

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Mario Luis Small

PhD in Sociology, 2001.
Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology, Harvard University.
Visiting Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2020.
Elected to American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 2020.
University of Bremen Excellence Chair, 2020.
Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Harvard University, 2020

Someone To Talk To, by Mario Luis Small Mario Luis Small's latet book, Someone To Talk To, examines how people use their networks to cope with loss, victimization, failure, and other debilitating stressors. Oxford University Press (2017).

Best Publication, Sociology of Mental Health Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

Outstanding Recent Contribution Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

James Coleman Award for Best Book, Rationality and Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2018.

Mario Luis Small's second book, Unanticipated Gains, Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life, has been published by Oxford University Press (2009).

Winner of the 2009 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Mario Luis Small's first book, Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio, has been published by University of Chicago Press (2004).

Winner of the 2005 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Winner of the the 2005 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

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Graziella Silva

PhD in Sociology, 2010.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Inequality, University of Rio de Janeiro (on leave from 2016).

Co-author of Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel, by Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica S. Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrachi, Hanna Herzog & Elisa Reis. Princeton University Press (2016).

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Francis X. Shen

JD and PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2006 and 2008.
Associate Professor of Law and McKnight Presidential Fellow, University of Minnesota.
Executive Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior.

Francis X. Shen directs the Shen Neurolaw Lab at the University of Minnesota: "Every story is a brain story, and we focus our attention on the ways in which law and public policy can be improved through integration of brain science." He also serves as Executive Director of Education and Outreach activities for the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

Law and Neuroscience, by Francis Schen Francis X. Shen's latest book (with Owen D. Jones and Jeffrey D. Schall), is Law and Neuroscience, the first coursebook to cover the newly emerging field that explores both the promise within and the limitations of the intersection of these two disciplines. Wolters Kluwer (2014).

The Casualty Gap Francis X. Shen is co-author (with Douglas L. Kriner) of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities, Oxford University Press (2010).

The Education Mayor, by Francis X. Shen Francis X. Shen's first book (with Kenneth K. Wong, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, and Stacey Rutledge), The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools, has been published by Georgetown University Press (2007).