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    Michele Lamont

    Michèle Lamont

    Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies
    Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
    Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs


    Research interests: Cultural sociology. Inequality, race and ethnicity, the evaluation of social science knowledge, and the impact of neoliberalism on advanced industrial societies. Shared concepts of worth and excellence and their impact on hierarchies in a number of social domains.

    Jack Cao

    Jack Cao

    PhD in Psychology, 2019.
    Researcher at Facebook, Menlo Park, California.
    Anny Fenton

    Anny Fenton

    PhD in Sociology, 2019.
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Maine Medical Center Research Institute.
    Alix S. Winter

    Alix S. Winter

    PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, November 2019.
    Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, Columbia University.


    Alix Winter is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar working on INCITE’s Understanding Autism project.

    Daniel Wu

    Daniel Wu

    PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2019.
    Harvard Law School, JD 2017.
    Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer, Immuta.

    Daniel Wu researches data/AI ethics in smart cities.

    Ronald F. Ferguson

    Ronald F. Ferguson

    Director, Achievement Gap Initiative
    Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy


    Research interests: Education and economic development, racial achievement gaps.

    Archon Fung

    Archon Fung

    Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government


    Research interests: Political scientist. How participation, deliberation and transparency can make contemporary public governance more fair and effective.

    Peter Bucchianeri

    Peter Bucchianeri

    PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2018.
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Effective Lawmaking, Vanderbilt University.


    Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Dissertation Award on Urban Politics, 2019.

    Winner of Best Paper Award in Urban or Regional Politics, American Political Science Association Section on Urban and Local Politics and Urban Affairs Review, 2019.

    Winner of the Susan Clarke Young Scholars's Award, American Political Science Association Setion on Urban and Local Politics, 2019.

    Awarded Harvard University's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for his dissertation, "Ideology and Factions in Urban Politics," 2018.

    Kristin L. Perkins

    Kristin L. Perkins

    PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2017.
    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University.


    Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2019.

    Patrick Sharkey

    Patrick Sharkey

    PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.
    Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.


    Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University, 2007-2009.

    Uneasy Peace, by Patrick SharkeyPatrick Sharkey's second book,Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, has been published by W.W. Norton (2018).

    Winner of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.

    Straus Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, 2013-2014.

    Stuck in PlacePatrick Sharkey's first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality, has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2013).

    Winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.

    Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2014.

    Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2013.

    Winner of The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, 2013.

    Patrick Sharkey has been named one of four new William T. Grant Scholars, 2010-2015. The program identifies and supports promising early-career researchers in the behavioral and social sciences with five-year research awards.

    Winner of the Roger Gould Prize for berst article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in the American Journal of Sociology, 2010.

    Co-winner of the Jane Addams Award for best article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in urban sociology, Communithy and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010.

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