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Theo Leenman: Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates

April 12, 2016

Awardee | Theodore S. Leenman, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, is one of five recipients of the 2016 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. The award includes a $1,000 prize from a gift given by David G. Nathan ’51, M.D. ’55, Robert A. Stranahan Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and his wife Jean Louise Friedman Nathan. Read more about Theo Leenman's work at his homepage.



The worrisome return of a racist form of home lending

May 5, 2016

Urban Institute | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology. How and why "contract for deed" is making a comeback and what it means for economic mobility and wealth accumulation for minority families.



The Urban Jobs Crisis

May 15, 2013

Harvard Magazine | by James M. Quane, William Julius Wilson, and Jackelyn Hwang (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy)



The trick that could get Republicans behind redistribution

October 31, 2015

Salon | Piece by Sean McElwee of Demos cites new study by Theda Skocpol and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) on interest mobilization and party coalitions in U.S. tax politics. View original study►



The Tobin Project: Conference on Inequality and Decision-Making Participants Selected

April 15, 2016

The Tobin Project | Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellows Beth Truesdale (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) and Robert Manduca (Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy), and alumnae Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (Ph.D. '14) and Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), are among the group of national and international scholars selected to participate in The Tobin Project's Conference on Inequality and Decision-Making, to be held August 4-5 in Cambridge.
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The Tobin Project Spring 2017 Fellows: Sarah James

March 29, 2017

The Tobin Project | Sarah James, PhD candidate in Government & Social Policy, has been named a spring 2017 graduate fellow with The Tobin Project, which will support her research titled "Identification of and response to policy failure in state governments."



The Tobin Project Spring 2017 fellows: James Biblarz

March 29, 2017

The Tobin Project | Jimmy Biblarz, PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy, has been named a spring 2017 graduate fellow with The Tobin Project, which will support his research titled "From Integration to Resource Fortification: Ideology and America’s Second Reconstruction."



The Tobin Project 2016 Graduate Student Fellows: Sarah James

May 26, 2016

Awardee | Sarah James, Ph.D. student in Government and Social Policy, has been selected to participate in The Tobin Project as a 2016 Graduate Student Fellow. The Tobin Project's Graduate Student Fellows program, which draws students from universities across the country, supports student research on real-world problems in the social sciences by providing research workshops and research fellowships to enable students to carry out a specific project.  James will pursue research on "Race and Street-Level Bureaucracy in Schools: An Examination of Texas’ School-based Police Forces."  Read more about Sarah James's work at her homepage.



The Story Borrower

March 3, 2016

Harvard Graduate School of Education | Profile of Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology), whose whose research looks at the stories of low-income, first-generation undergraduates at elite universities. “They are letting me borrow their stories and it motivates me like crazy,” he says.

Jack will join the HGSE faculty as an assistant professor in July 2019, following a prestigious fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He will also hold the Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.



The stalled, struggling black middle class

February 10, 2016

Urban Institute | By Kreg Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.

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