PhD in Public Policy, 2007. Teaching Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.
From 2007 to 2011, Adam Thomas was the Research Director for the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families, which is housed in the Institution’s Economic Studies program. While at Brookings, Thomas led the effort to develop FamilyScape, an agent-based simulation model of family formation.
Boston Globe | Coverage of the upcoming "Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates," a JFK Jr Forum event sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. Bruce Western, Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University), and William Julius Wilson will also be participating in this event.
The Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, home to the Inequality program, is the Harvard Kennedy School’s center for the advancement of ideas, research, and policy to confront social problems that are among the nation's most urgent domestic policy challenges.
Social Policy encompasses concerns of poverty and disadvantage, enduring inequalities of race, education and economic mobility, the safety net for families and children, crime and criminal justice, urban neighborhoods and inner cities, employment and labor markets, and health care.
Malcolm H. Wiener is an Aegean prehistorian whose specialties include the rise, florescence, and collapse of ancient civilizations; Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece; the chronology of Egypt, the Near East, and the Aegean in the Bronze and Early Iron Age; and Homer and...