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    Margot Moinester

    Margot Moinester: Dorothy S. Thomas Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

    April 23, 2019

    Population Association of America | Margot Moinester, PhD candidate in Sociology, was presented with the Population Association of America (PAA) Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best graduate student paper for her paper, "Rethinking the U.S. Deportation Boom." Margot currently holds an NSF-Law & Inequalty Doctoral Fellowship with the American Bar Foundation.

    Mayor Walsh and Police Commissioner Evans Announce Additional Steps to Curb Gun Violence

    Mayor Walsh and Police Commissioner Evans Announce Additional Steps to Curb Gun Violence

    September 9, 2015

    City of Boston—Mayor's Office | Highlights findings of Anthony Braga (Rutgers) and David M. Hureau (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy) in their report, "The Sources of Boston Crime Guns."  This work is also the basis of their article, "Strong Gun Laws Are Not Enough: The Need for Improved Enforcement of Secondhand Gun Transfer Laws in Massachusetts," forthcoming in Preventative Medicine.

    Meredith Dost

    Meredith Dost: Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising

    May 10, 2019

    Harvard Gazette | Meredith Dost, PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy and a Stone PhD Research Scholar, is one of 12 advisers throughout the University to receive the prestigious Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. The Star Prizes were established by James A. Star ’83 to recognize and reward individuals who contribute to the College through their exemplary intellectual and personal guidance of undergraduate students.

    Meredith Dost

    Meredith Dost: Tobin Project 2019 History of American Democracy Graduate Student Fellow

    September 25, 2019

    The Tobin Project | Meredith Dost, PhD candidate in Government and Social Policy and a Stone PhD Research Scholar, is one of nine History of American Democracy Graduate Student Fellows selected by the Tobin Project for her project, "The Effect of Administrative Burden on Political Participation: A Consequence of Federalism." The Tobin Project's graduate student fellows receive research support and the opportunity to receive critical feedback in an interdisciplinary, seminar-style environment.

    Mexico's Next Big Chance to Tackle Corruption

    Mexico's Next Big Chance to Tackle Corruption

    February 8, 2016

    America's Quarterly | By Viridiana Rios.  Rios (Ph.D. '13), now a research fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., writes that Mexico's citizen initiative, Ley 3de3, represents the first time in Mexico's history that civil society has come together to take legislative processes against corruption into their own hands. Mexico's civil society, she argues, is leading the fight against corruption not by choice, but by necessity.

    Michael Brown, Ferguson, and why race matters for policy research

    Michael Brown, Ferguson, and why race matters for policy research

    February 9, 2016

    Urban Institute | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an affiliated scholar and contributor to the Inequality and Mobility Initiative at the Urban Institute. "We cannot fully put an end to unequal opportunities until we better understand and address how race shapes those factors."

    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
    Jared Schachner

    Minority Neighborhoods at the Bottom of L.A.'s Economic Ladder Tend to Stay There

    March 17, 2017

    L.A. Weekly | Jared Schachner, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, discusses findings of a new study co-authored with Harvard's Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, and Robert D. Mare of UCLA. Their article, "Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form," appears in a new RSF Journal issue on "Spatial Foundations of Inequality."
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