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Justin de Benedictis-Kessner

Assistant Professor of Public Policy


Research interests: Political scientist. American politics, with a focus on political behavior, public policy, local politics, elections, and experimental and quantitative methodology.

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Karen Dynan

Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics


Research interests: Economist. Fiscal and other types of macroeconomic policy, consumer behavior, and household finances.

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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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Gordon Hanson

Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy


Research interests:  Impact of immigration and international trade on the U.S. labor market; economic geography;  urbanization.

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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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