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    Matthew Clair and Alix Winter

    Law and Society John Hope Franklin Prize: Matthew Clair and Alix Winter

    April 17, 2017

    Awardees | The Law and Society Association has awarded Matthew Clair, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, and Alix Winter, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy, its John Hope Franklin Prize for the best article on race, racism, and the law published in the past two years. The article, How Judges Think about Racial Disparties: Situational Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System, "reveals that judges who routinely impose sentences with a differential racial impact sometimes intervene to mitigate the effects, and in many cases, justify decision making that continues to perpetuate disparities," in the words of the award citation. In so doing, "this article provides valuable new insights into the legal consciousness of elite actors and their thinking about the discriminatory impact of their decisions."
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    Hope Harvey

    Hope Harvey named a Radcliffe Institute Graduate Student Fellow for 2017-2018

    May 4, 2017

    Awardee | Hope Harvey, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy is one of three Harvard University doctoral students selected to be a Graduate Student Fellow in the 2017-2018 class of Radcliffe Fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Hope will spend the year completing her dissertation, Exploring the Impacts of Doubling Up on American Families, with a Radcliffe Institute Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Learn more about Hope's work at her...

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    New Awards in Intergenerational Mobility in the United States

    May 18, 2017

    Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced four new awards from its small grant competition in intergenerational mobility, three of which will support research by Harvard Inequality & Social Policy affiliates:

    • Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard University)
      Did Great Migration Destinations become Mobility Traps?
      Ellora Derenoncourt is a PhD candidate in Economics.
       
    • Ryan D. Enos (Harvard University)
      Do Public Works Programs Increase Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from the Works Progress Administration
      Ryan Enos is Associate Professor of Government.
       
    • James J. Feigenbaum (Princeton University), Maximillian Hell (Stanford University), and Robert Manduca (Harvard University)
      The American Dream in the Great Depression: Absolute Income Mobility in the United States, 1915-1940
      James Feigenbaum (Harvard PhD '16) is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In fall 2017 he will join the Boston University faculty as Assistant Professor of Economics. Maximillian Hell is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Stanford University.  Robert Manduca is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard University.

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    Tom Wooten awarded NSF doctoral dissertation research grant

    Tom Wooten awarded NSF doctoral dissertation research grant

    March 23, 2017
    National Science Foundation | Tom Wooten, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, has been awarded an NSF doctoral dissertation research grant (NSF-DDRI) for his PhD dissertation, "The Transition to College Experience of Low-Income Students." Learn more about Tom's work at his homepage:
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    Margot Moinester awarded American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Law & Inequality

    Margot Moinester awarded American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Law & Inequality

    March 23, 2017
    American Bar Foundation | Margot Moinester, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, has been awarded a two-year doctoral fellowship in Law & Inequality from the American Bar Foundation, the nation's leading research institute for the empirical study of law. ABF doctoral and postdoctoral fellows spend their fellowship tenure in residence at the American Bar Foundation's headquarters in Chicago.
    Michael Hankinson awarded Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for dissertation

    Michael Hankinson awarded Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for dissertation

    May 24, 2017
    Awardee | Michael Hankinson (PhD in Government & Social Policy, '17) is a recipient of Harvard's Senator Charles Sumner Prize for his dissertation, "Why is Housing So Hard to Build? Four Papers on the Collection Action Problem of Spatial Proximity." Hankinson, who graduates tomorrow, will spend the coming year as a Quantitative Policy Analysis Postdoctoral Fellow in the Politics Department at Oberlin College. Learn more about his work at his homepage:
    mhankinson.com
    Soledad Prillaman awarded Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for dissertation

    Soledad Prillaman awarded Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for dissertation

    May 24, 2017
    Awardee | Soledad Artiz Prillaman (PhD in Government, '17) is a recipient of Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for best dissertation on a subject of political science for her doctoral dissertation, "Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India's Gender Gap in Political Participation." Prillaman, who graduates this week, will spend the next two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, before joining the faculty at Stanford University in 2019 as Assistant Professor of Political Science.  Learn more about her work at her homepage:
    soledadprillaman.com
    Abena Subira Mackall named NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow

    Abena Subira Mackall named NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow

    May 25, 2017
    National Academy of Education | Abena Subira Mackall, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been named 2017 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow. Abena's research explores the mechanisms underlying associations between poverty, crime, and low educational attainment through the use of in-depth interviews.
    Jimmy Biblarz

    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."

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