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Anthony Jack: A New Voice for Diversity in Higher Ed

June 7, 2016

Harvard Alumni for Education (HAEd) | Interview with Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. '16), now Harvard Society of Fellows. "What I’m showing is that two students who come from similar backgrounds are experiencing college so differently. Why? And what are colleges doing to magnify those differences? Because the whole story is not just differences between the middle class and the working class. There are differences between those who have access to a middle class way of life and those who do not."



Anthony Abraham Jack: ASHE-CEP Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship (Junior)

October 1, 2019

Awardee | Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016 has been awarded the 2019 Association for Higher Education CEP Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship (Junior) in recognition of seminal, exemplary scholarship that focuses on research and issues specifically related to underrepresented populations of color. Anthony Abraham Jack received his PhD in Sociology in 2016 and is now Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard and a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.



Anthony Abraham Jack: AESA Critics' Choice Book Award

September 2, 2019

Awardee | Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016 is the recipient of a 2019 Critics' Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association for The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press, 2019). Anthony Abraham Jack is now Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard and a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.



Anthony Abraham Jack Wants to Redefine How We Think About College Campus Inequality

May 19, 2019

The Nation | Edwin Aponte sits down for a conversation with Anthony Abraham Jack PhD 2016, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press, 2019). Anthony Abraham Jack is now Assistant Professor of Education at Harvard and a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.



Anthony Abraham Jack delivers TEDxCambridge talk

May 3, 2019

TedxCambridge | Anthony Abraham Jack, PhD '16, delivered a TEDxCambridge talk at the Boston Opera House [video available soon]. Jack is a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds the Shutzer Assistant Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He is the author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (Harvard University Press, 2019).



Anthony Abraham Jack awarded best first book prize by Harvard University Press

August 1, 2019

Awardee | Anthony Abraham Jack's The Privileged Poor, has been awarded the 2019 Thomas J Wilson Memorial Prize by Harvard University Press, an honor given to the best first book “judged outstanding in content, style, and mode of presentation.” Anthony Jack PhD 2016 is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Adavanced Study.



Announcing the 2017-2018 RSF Visiting Scholars: Deirdre Bloome

January 19, 2017

Russell Sage Foundation | The Russell Sage Foundation announced the appointment of 15 leading social scientists as Visiting Scholars for the 2017-2018 academic year. Among them: Deirdre Bloome (Ph.D. '14), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, who will investigate "the effects of rising inequality in the U.S. on intergenerational income persistence, or the extent to which children’s economic outcomes in adulthood resemble those of their parents."



Announcing New Radcliffe Institute Fellows: Jal Mehta

May 13, 2016

Awardee | Jal Mehta (Ph.D. '06), Associate Professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been selected to be the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow in the 2016-2017 class of fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. These Radcliffe Fellows—scholars, scientists, and artists—come from six continents and across Harvard to pursue an individual project in an interdisciplinary setting. Mehta will be working on a book, The Chastened Dream: Social Science, Social Policy, and Social Progress across the Twentieth Century.

Ann Owens: William T. Grant Scholar 2019

May 16, 2019



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Ann Owens named a 2016 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

May 16, 2016

Awardee | Ann Owens (Ph.D. '12), Assistant Professor of Sociology and Spatial Sciences at University of Southern California, has been named a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, a fellowship that supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.

Owens will investigate whether and how both school and neighborhood inequalities contribute to the educational attainment gap between high- and low-income youth.The gap between high- and low-income young adults' educational attainment has grown over the past few decades while racial gaps have stabilized. Identifying possible explanations for the economic attainment gap, including neighborhood, district, and school economic segregation, is thus critical for reducing inequality for future generations.
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