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Claudine Gay

Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies


Research interests:  American political behavior, public opinion, minority politics, and urban and local politics.

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Mary C. Waters

PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences
John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology


Research interests: Integration of immigrants and their children; the transition to adulthood for the children of immigrants; intergroup relations; the measurement and meaning of racial and ethnic identity; and the social, demographic, and psychological impact of natural disasters.

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Jason Beckfield

Professor of Sociology


Research interests: Institutional causes and consequences of social inequality. Economic inequality in the European Union. Theoretical and empirical investigation of why societies have such different population health profiles, showing how institutional arrangements (welfare programs, educational expansion, labor markets, and citizenship rights) stratify health. Long-term trends in the development of political economy.

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Robert J. Sampson

Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Chair, Department of Sociology
Director, Boston Area Research Initiative


Research interests: Crime, urban inequality, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, "ecometrics," and the social structure of the contemporary city. 

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Jeffrey B. Liebman

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy
Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government


Research interests: Economist. Public sector economics and social policy. Tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality.

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Julie Boatright Wilson

Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer in Social Policy


Research interests: Sociologist. Poverty policy, family policy, and child welfare and juvenile justice issues. Adoption from public agencies, child welfare and juvenile justice reform, and community-based strategies for strengthening families' capacities to parent.

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Amitabh Chandra

Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School
Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School


Research interests: Economics and health policy. Innovation and cost-growth in healthcare, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare.

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David T. Ellwood

Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor


Research interests: Economist. Poverty and welfare, economic mobility. Labor economics, family change, low pay and unemployment, changing structure of American families.

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Mary Jo Bane

Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Emerita


Research interests: Poverty, welfare, families, the role of churches in civic life.

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Christopher Jencks

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus


Research interests: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.

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