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    New RSF grant: How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why?

    New RSF grant: How Rigid is the Wealth Structure and Why?

    March 12, 2015

    Awardees | Alexandra Killewald and Fabian Pfeffer (University of Michigan) are the recipients of a Russell Sage Foundation grant, jointly funded with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to assess the strength and pattern of multigenerational wealth associations, and explore the role of intergenerational transfers, home ownership and marriage in wealth mobility across generations.

    New RSF grant: Inequality, Institutions, and the Making of Financial Policy

    New RSF grant: Inequality, Institutions, and the Making of Financial Policy

    December 1, 2017
    Russell Sage Foundation | Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in collaboration with Susan Yackee of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded a Russell Sage Foundation grant to examine the ways that special interests use their considerable resources to influence administrative and executive decisionmaking, focusing on financial industry influence on rulemaking in the aftermath of Dodd-Frank.
    Orlando Patterson honored by historians

    Orlando Patterson honored by historians

    September 12, 2017
    Harvard Sociology | Wiley Blackwell has recently published a book, On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death, edited by two of the nation’s most eminent historians of antiquity, that assesses the impact of Orlando Patterson's  work, Slavery and Social Death, on ancient, and comparative cultural and historical studies.  

    This is the first time that a living sociologist’s work has been so honored by historians of classical antiquity and comparative historical studies. Read more
    Orlando Patterson receives Anisfeld-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award

    Orlando Patterson receives Anisfeld-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award

    April 7, 2016

    Harvard Gazette |Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by The Cleveland Foundation.

    Read additional coverage from The Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The Anisfield-Wolf Awards, established in 1935, are given to books that confront racism, examine diversity and expand society's understanding of class and justice". Past winners include Nadine Gordimer, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Toni Morrison.

    Paul Peterson Receives Prize for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform

    Paul Peterson Receives Prize for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform

    March 15, 2016

    Awardee | Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, and Matthew M. Chingos, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, have been selected as winners of the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize for their paper “Experimentally estimated impacts of school vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment,” named best academic paper on school choice and reform.

    PEN/John Kennedy Galbraith Award for NonFiction: Matthew Desmond

    PEN/John Kennedy Galbraith Award for NonFiction: Matthew Desmond

    February 22, 2017

    PEN America | Matthew Desmond's Evicted has been named the winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a biennial award for a distinguished work of nonfiction "possessing notable literary merit and critical perspective and illuminating important contemporary issues." Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, will be honored at the PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony in NYC on March 27.

    Peter A. Hall awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

    Peter A. Hall awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

    April 5, 2018

    John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard, is one of 173 scholars, artists, and scientists named today as 2018 Guggenheim Fellows. "Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise," this year's class was selected from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Guggenheim Foundation's 94th annual competition.

    Professor Hall's Guggenheim project will focus on the renegotiation of the social contract in the developed democracies over the years since 1945 and on the role of electoral politics and producer group politics in that process.

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