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Jane J. Mansbridge

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Emerita


Research interests: Political scientist. Representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

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Robert D. Putnam

Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus


Research interests: Political scientist. Inequality and opportunity: the growing class gap among American young people and the implications for social mobility. Social capital and public affairs.

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William Julius Wilson

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Emeritus


Research interests: Sociologist. Urban poverty, neighborhoods, joblessness, concentrated disadvantage, race and inequality, and social policies to address these problems.

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Lawrence Katz

Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics


Research interests: Labor economics and the economics of social problems. History of U.S. economic inequality and the roles of technological change and the pace of educational advance in affecting the wage structure. Impacts of neighborhood poverty on low-income families. 

Currently working with Claudia Goldin on a major project studying the evolution of career and family choices and outcomes for U.S. college men and women.

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Theda Skocpol

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology
Director, Scholars Strategy Network


Research interests: American politics. U.S. social policy and civic engagement amidst the shifting inequalities in American democracy.

The Shifting U.S. Political Terrain project, launched in 2015, documents transformations in advocacy groups, constituency organizations, think tanks, and donor organizations operating around the Democratic and Republican parties – and asks how these shifts contribute to GOP extremism, government gridlock, and public policies that spur economic inequality.

Other projects include tracking the implementation of health reform in the U.S. states; analyzing the dynamics of local Tea Party groups; and probing how the Democratic Party has handled – and mishandled – political battles over taxes and public revenues.... Read more about Theda Skocpol

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Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald

Professor of Sociology


Research interests: Killewald's research takes a demographic approach to the study of social stratification. Work-family intersection; ways in which earnings and employment shape women's time in household labor; and the effect of marriage and parenthood on workers' wages. 

Parental wealth on adult outcomes, including the role of parental wealth in explaining the Black-White wealth gap. Assortative mating by parental wealth.

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Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Member of the Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School


Research interests: Stratification and Statistical Methods. Statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; how people act when rationality is not a possibility; the linkage in Pragmatism between action and knowledge; analysis of Age-Period-Cohort models; inner city youth behavior and violence, police-community relations.

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Mario Luis Small

Grafstein Family Professor of Sociology
Visiting Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Director of Graduate Studies, Dept of Sociology


Research interests: networks, poverty, organizations, culture, methods, neighborhoods, and institutions.

Small is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research.

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David J. Deming

Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Education and Economics, HGSE


Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.

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Ryan D. Enos

Professor of Government


Research interests: Political psychology, race and ethnic politics, and political behavior in the United States and other countries. Social geography and politics.

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