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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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David S. Pedulla

Professor of Sociology

Research interests: Race and gender stratification, labor markets, and economic and organizational sociology. Author of Making the Cut: Hiring Decisions, Bias, and the Consequences of Nonstandard, Mismatched, and Precarious Employment (Princeton University Press, 2020).

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Garry Mitchell

PhD student in Education
Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration

Amelia Peterson

PhD in Education Policy and Program Evaluation, 2020
LSE Fellow in Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (2019-2021)
Founding Faculty, London Interdisciplinary School (beginning 2021)

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