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Matthew Desmond to receive 2016 Human Security Award from UC Irvine

May 3, 2016

Awardee | Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Science, is the 2016 recipient of the Human Security Award, which recognizes an individual "whose actions have made a dramatic difference in helping protect and empower the world’s most vulnerable groups and communities." The award is sponsored by the UC Irvine Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Center for Unconventional Security, and School of Social Ecology.



Sendhil Mullainathan elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 20, 2016

Awardee | Sendhil Mullainathan, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, is one of 213 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious learned societies whose members some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, business, and philanthropic leaders. Read more about the University's eight new members in the Harvard Gazette.



Matthew Desmond named a William T. Grant Scholar

April 18, 2016

Awardee | Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, is one of six new William T. Grant Scholars, which supports promising, early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences with five-year  research awards. Desmond will pursue research titled "When the State Takes Your Children: How the Child Protective Services System Changes Young Parents."



Richard Freeman recognized with AEA Distinguished Fellow Award

April 29, 2016

Awardee | Richard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, is one of four recipients of the American Economics Association Distinguished Fellow award for lifetime distinguished research contributions. 

"Richard Freeman is an enormously innovative labor economist who has made pioneering contributions to virtually every aspect of the field including the market for highly educated labor, the economics of discrimination and poverty, the economics of trade unionism, comparative labor market institutions and empirical methodology. Freeman’s analyses have been notably expansive, eye opening, revealing, policy-relevant and often provocative, no more so than on trade unionism and the role of employee ownership." More ►



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.



Christopher Winship named an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence

March 31, 2016

Awardee | Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, has been selected an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence for the 2016-17 academic year. During the fellowship year, Winship will be working on an evaluation of community-police relations in Boston.



Mary Waters selected to give Henry and Bryna David Lecture at National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2016

Awardee | Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, has been selected to give the 2016 Henry and Bryna David Lecture at the National Academy of Sciences. The Henry and Bryna David Endowment awards innovative research in the behavioral and social sciences by selecting a leading expert and researcher to write an article in their field to be presented at the National Academy of Sciences and published in Issues in Science and Technology.  The lecture will be webcast live May 3, 2016, at 5 pm.

Waters first presented this work, "The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the U.S.," in the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series, March 7, 2016.



City Year New Hampshire honors Robert Putnam with Lifetime of Service award

March 26, 2016

Awardee | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, is the recipient of City Year New Hampshire's Lifetime of Service Award.



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.



Nathan Hendren named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow

February 23, 2016

Awardee | Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, is one of 126 early-career scientists and scholars selected for the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes the next generation of leaders in eight scientific fields. Harvard colleague Melissa Dell, also an Assistant Professor of Economics, was likewise named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow. Read the press release.

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