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    Devah Pager

    RSF Recent Awards for the Future of Work: Devah Pager

    July 20, 2017
    Russell Sage Foundation | Devah Pager, Director of the Inequality & Social Policy program and a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, has been awarded a research grant (joint with David Pedulla of Stanford University) to investigate "The Organizational Bases of Discrimination."
    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.
    Michele Lamont

    Michèle Lamont awarded Erasmus Prize: Honored for contributions to social science

    November 28, 2017
    Harvard Gazette | Michèle Lamont, Harvard’s Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, professor of sociology, professor of African and African-American studies, and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 Erasmus Prize.

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    Laudatio and Acceptance speech

    Erasmus Prize Winner 2017 Michèle Lamont - Film portrait (video) by Shanti van Dam of Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
    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
    Mario Luis Small

    Mario Luis Small Joins RSF Board of Trustees

    November 10, 2017
    Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced the appointment of sociologist Mario Luis Small to its board of trustees. Mario Luis Small (PhD '01) is Grafstein Family Professor at Harvard University. 
    Roberto G. Gonzales

    Roberto Gonzales Named Professor of Education

    July 19, 2017
    Harvard Graduate School of Education | Roberto Gonzales has been promoted from assistant professor to full professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

    “Roberto Gonzales has established himself as one of the leading experts on undocumented youth in this country,” said Dean James Ryan. “His award-winning book, Lives in Limbo, has been rightly hailed by both the media and academia; it has been taught by teachers in classrooms around the country; and it has helped to shape and inform the debate on educational policies and practices related to immigrant students. The impact, rigor, quality, and quantity of Roberto’s research are remarkable, and I am delighted to welcome him to the ranks of HGSE’s senior faculty.”
    Washington Center for Equitable Growth

    Jason Furman, Former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman, Joins Equitable Growth Steering Committee

    November 17, 2017
    Washington Center for Equitable Growth | Equitable Growth announced today that Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has joined the organization's steering committee.

    “Equitable Growth is a leader in advancing academic and policy-relevant research into whether and how inequality affects growth,” said Furman. “I am thrilled to be joining an organization that is driving the conversation on issues that are central to today’s economic policy debate.”
    Peter Hall one of 66 newly-elected Fellows of the British Academy

    Peter Hall one of 66 newly-elected Fellows of the British Academy

    July 21, 2017
    The British Academy announced the election of its 2017 Fellows, a group representing "the very best of humanities an social science research, in the UK and globally." Harvard's Peter A. Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, is one of 20 overseas scholars, known as Corresponding Fellows, selected from outside the U.K.

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