Executive Committee
Sven Beckert
Anya Bernstein
Daniel P. Carpenter
Lizabeth Cohen
David Cutler
Frank Dobbin
Diana L. Eck
Richard B. Freeman
Claudine Gay
Claudia Goldin
Sunshine Hillygus
Jennifer Hochschild
Christopher Jencks
Lawrence F. Katz
Jason Kaufman
Alexander Keyssar
David C. King
Gary King
Jane Mansbridge
Harvey C. Mansfield
Lisa McGirr
Thomas E. Patterson
Paul Peterson
Robert D. Putnam
Nancy Rosenblum
Robert Sampson
Michael Sandel
Theda Skocpol
Sidney Verba
Mark Russell Warren
Mary C. Waters
Sven Beckert
Professor of History Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the
Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (Cambridge University Press,
2001), an economic, social and political history of New York's economic elite in
the nineteenth century United States. His research and teaching interests focus
on the social and economic history of the United States, especially from a
global and comparative perspective. He has been awarded numerous prizes and
fellowships, including from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford University and the Center for Scholars and Writers in New
York. Currently Beckert is writing The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Anya Bernstein
Lecturer in Social Studies
Anya Bernstein is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for and a Lecturer in
Harvard's Social Studies concentration. She received her B.A. from Barnard
College in 1990 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1997. In 1997-98, she was a
Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University. Her intellectual interests
include the politics of agenda setting, the role of movement and interest groups
in American politics, and the conditions under which social change occurs. She
is especially interested in public policies that affect children and families.
She is the author of The Moderation Dilemma: Legislative Coalitions and the
Politics of Family and Medical Leave (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), and
two articles. She is currently studying the relationship between gender and
class in the contemporary debate over work-family policy. In 2000, she received
a Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2005, she was
nominated for the Levinson Teaching Prize.
Daniel P. Carpenter
Professor of Government
Director, Center for American Political Studies
Daniel Carpenter is Professor of Government
and Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. He received his doctorate in political science from the
University of Chicago in 1996. He joined the Harvard University faculty in 2002.
Dr. Carpenter's primary interest is in the theoretical, historical and
quantitative analysis of public bureaucracies and government regulation. His
dissertation received the 1998 Harold D. Lasswell Award from the American
Political Science Association and as a book - The Forging of Bureaucratic
Autonomy: Reputations, Networks and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies,
1862-1928 (Princeton University Press, 2001) - was awarded the APSA's
Kammerer Prize as well as the Charles Levine Prize of the International
Political Science Association. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California, at the Brookings
Institution, and the Santa Fe Institute.
More recently, Professor Carpenter has commenced a large-scale theoretical,
historical and empirical analysis of the regulation of pharmaceutical products
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Carpenter's research on
pharmaceutical regulation has been awarded grants from the National Science
Foundation and an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. He is interested in how the FDA has come to possess
broad gate keeping power over the international pharmaceutical marketplace, and
he will study the immense variance of time-to-market and FDA review times across
different drugs, as well as why drug safety issues (Vioxx, for example) arise
with different sorts of products and at different times.
Professor Carpenter has also been working on health policy research in two
areas. He has authored mathematical models of "placebo learning," or the
influence of placebo effects on how patients and doctors evaluate the quality of
medical services and pharmaceutical therapies, and the economic and regulatory
implications. And with Elizabeth Armstrong ( Princeton) and Marie Hojnacki (
Penn State), he is working on a large empirical project on coverage of disease
in the mass media and in public forums such as congressional hearings.
Lizabeth Cohen
Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies
Director, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Lizabeth
Cohen, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History
Department at Harvard, recently published the book, A Consumers' Republic:
The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Knopf, 2003, pbk
Vintage 2004.) A previous book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in
Chicago, 1919-1930 (Cambridge, 1990), won the Bancroft Prize and was a
finalist for the Pulitzer. She has received fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, and the
Radcliffe Institute. She is now at work on a new project on the major effort to
rebuild the urban built environment after World War II. This book will focus on
the life and career of Edward J. Logue, the orchestrator of urban renewal in New
Haven in the 1950s, Boston in the 1960s, and New York State in the 1970s and
1980s.
David Cutler
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
FAS Dean of Social Sciences
David Cutler is Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, in the
Economics Department and at the Kennedy School of Government, as well as
Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National
Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and advised the Presidential
campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry. Among other
affiliations, he has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and
the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the
Institute of Medicine. Professor Cutler is the author of Your Money Or Your
Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, (Oxford
University Press, 2004). This book, and Professor Cutler's ideas, were the
subject of a feature article in the New York Times Magazine, "The
Quality Cure," by Roger Lowenstein. In 2006, Cutler was named one of the 30
people who could have a powerful impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare
magazine. David's research is
concentrated in health economics, including: measuring the health of the
population and understanding how medical and non-medical factors influence
health. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
Frank Dobbin
Professor of Sociology
Frank Dobbin joined the Harvard Sociology Department in February of 2003,
after spending fifteen years in the Sociology Department at Princeton. He
received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Stanford
University in 1987, after which he taught for a year at Indiana University. In the
spring of 2003, he was at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto.
Professor Dobbin studies organizations,
economic behavior, and public policy. His book, Forging Industrial Policy:
The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (winner of the
American Sociological Association's 1996 Max Weber Award), traces nations'
modern industrial strategies to early differences in their political systems.
Professor Dobbin is currently working on a book tracing changing corporate
response to Civil Rights law since 1964. In a collaborative project with Julian
Dierkes, Bell Kwok, and Dirk Zorn he is examining how public policy shifts
induced change in corporate structure and strategy between 1970 and 2000. In a
collaborative project with Sandra Kalev and Erin Kelly, he is looking at how
corporate human resources practices have affected the movement of women and
African-Americans into management.
Diana L. Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian
Studies at Harvard University where she serves on the Committee on
the Study of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is
also a member of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies as
well as the faculty of the Divinity School. She received her B.A. from Smith
College (1967) in Religion, her M.A. from the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London (1968) in South Asian History,
and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (1976) in the Comparative
Study of Religion. Diana Eck and her partner Dorothy Austin are
currently serving as Masters of Lowell House at Harvard.
Professor Eck's work on India includes the books Banaras, City
of Light (Knopf 1982) and Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in
India. (Anima 1981; Columbia University Press 1996). With Devaki
Jain she edited Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on Women,
Religion, and Social Change, a book which emerged from a jointly
planned interfaith women's conference. With Francoise Mallison, she
edited Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of
India, essays honoring the French Indology scholar Charlotte
Vaudeville.
Diana Eck's book, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from
Bozeman to Banaras (Beacon Press, 1993), studies the question of
religious difference in the context of Christian theology and the
comparative study of religion. It addresses issues of Christian
faith in a world of many faiths and, more broadly, the issues of
religious diversity that challenge people of every faith.
Encountering God won the 1994 Melcher Book Award of the
Unitarian Universalist Association and the 1995 Louisville
Grawemeyer Book Award in Religion, given for work that reflects a
significant breakthrough in our understanding of religion.
Since 1991, Diana Eck has been heading a research team at Harvard
University to explore the new religious diversity of the United
States and its meaning for the American pluralist experiment. The
Pluralism Project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, the Pew Charitable
Trusts, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation has been
documenting the growing presence of the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu,
Sikh, Jain, and Zoroastrian communities in the U.S. This research
project has involved students and professors in "hometown" research
on America's new religious landscape. In 1994, Diana Eck and the
Pluralism Project published
World Religions in Boston, A Guide to Communities and Resources,
which introduces the religious traditions and communities of Boston
-- from Native Americans, Christians, and Jews to Muslims,
Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Zoroastrians. The Pluralism
Project's interactive CD-ROM,
On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia
introduction to the world's religions in the American context, was
published in 1997 by Columbia University Press. It has won major
awards from Media & Methods, EdPress, and Educom. Her new
book,
A New Religious America (Harper San Francisco, 2001)
addresses the challenges for the United States of the new religious
diversity that is now ours.
In 1996, Diana L. Eck was appointed to a U.S. State Department
Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad, a twenty-member
commission charged with advising the Secretary of State on enhancing
and protecting religious freedom in the overall context of human
rights. In 1998, Eck received the National Humanities Medal from
President Clinton and the National Endowment for the Humanities for
her work on American religious pluralism.
Richard B. Freeman
Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard
University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard
University Trade Union Program. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program
at the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-director of the London School of
Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London
School of Economics.
Richard Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He
is currently serving on the National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral
Sciences Panel of the United States National Academy of Science. In September of
2001 he delivered the first J.P. Morgan Fellow Lecture on "The Impact of the
Internet on the Economy: Revolutionary Force or Overblown Hype?" at the Hans Arnhold Center, Germany.
Professor Freeman has published over 300 articles dealing with topics in
youth labor market problems, crime, higher education, the growth and decline of
unionism, self-organizing non-unions in the labor market, restructuring European
welfare states, Chinese labor markets, transitional economies, high skilled
labor markets, economic discrimination, labor standards and globalization,
income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing an
LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social
behavior and the economy.
In addition, he has written or edited 25 books, several of which have been
translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Some of his books
include: Visible Hands: Labor Institutions in the Economy (Clarendon
Lectures, forthcoming, 2002), The Labor Market Comes to China
(forthcoming, 2002), Seeking a Premiere League Economy (forthcoming,
2002), Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries (2000),
What Workers Want (1999), The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for
Poor America (New Democracy Forum Series) (1999), Generating Jobs: How to
Increase Demand for Less-Skilled Workers (1998), The Welfare State in
Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model (1997), Differences and Changes
in Wage Structures (1995), Working Under Different Rules (1994),
Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada
and the United States (1993), Immigration and the Work Force: Economic
Consequences for the United States and Source Areas (1992), Immigration,
Trade and the Labor Market (1991), Labor Markets in Action: Essays in
Empirical Economics (1989), Public Sector Unionism in the U.S.
(1987), The Black Youth Employment Crisis (1986), What Do Unions Do?
(1984), The Youth Joblessness Problem (1981), Labor Economics
(1979), and The Overeducated American (1976).
Claudine Gay
Professor of Government
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/cgay/
Claudia Goldin
Henry Lee Professor of Economics
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Director of the National
Bureau of Economic Research's Development of the American Economy program. Goldin's research is in the
general area of American economic history and has covered a wide range of
topics, such as slavery, emancipation, the post-bellum South, the family, women
in the economy, the economic impact of war, immigration, New Deal policies,
inequality, technological change and education. Most of her research interprets
the "present through the lens of the past" and explores the origins of current
issues of concern, such as the reasons for immigration restriction, the causes
of increased female labor force participation, the impact of technological
change on the wage structure, and the role of education in ameliorating
inequality. She is the author and editor of several books among them
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (Oxford
1990), The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
(with M. Bordo and E. White; University of Chicago Press 1998). She is currently
working on a book concerning the rise of mass education in America, particularly
the "high school movement" and egalitarianism. Her most recent work concerns the
impact of "the pill" on women's career and marriage decisions in the 1970s.
Sunshine Hillygus
Assistant Professor, Department of Government
D. Sunshine Hillygus is Assistant Professor of Government. Her research and
teaching interests include American political behavior, campaigns and elections,
survey research, and the societal impact of information technology. Her work has
appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, IT and Society,
and numerous edited volumes. She is currently working on a book manuscript, "The
Anatomy of Census 2000," with Norman Nie and Ken Prewitt. She is also currently
studying the electoral role of the U.S. south in presidential elections.
Jennifer Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government
Professor of African and African American Studies Jennifer Hochschild joined the Government Department in January 2001, with a
joint appointment in the Department of African and African American Studies. She also has
lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of
Education. Prof. Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and
political philosophy -- particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and
immigration -- and educational policy. She also works on issues in public
opinion and political culture. She is the author of The American Dream and
the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); Facing Up to the
American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton
University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and
School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair:
American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press,
1981). She is also a co-author or co-editor of other books. Her current project
is tentatively entitled "From Race to Skin Color; From Racial to Multiracial:
Fixity and Fluidity in American Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies."
Prof. Hochschild was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, published
by the American Political Science Association. She is also a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former vice-president of the American
Political Science
Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the
Russell Sage Foundation, and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the General
Social Survey. She served as co-chair of the Program Committee for the annual
convention of the APSA in 1996. She has received fellowships or awards from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American
Philosophical Society, the Spencer Foundation, the
American Political Science
Association, the Princeton University Research Board, the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and
other organizations. She has served as a consultant or expert witness in several
school desegregation cases, most recently the case of Yonkers Board of Education
v. New York State. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral
Sciences, and was twice a visitor at the Institute for Advanced
Study. She received the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University
Graduate School, and the Frank Goodnow Award from the American Political Science
Association, both in 2005. Professor Hochschild taught at Duke University and Columbia University
before going to Princeton in 1981, where she was William Steward Tod Professor
of Public and International Affairs before coming to Harvard. She teaches
courses on racial and ethnic politics, American political thought, power in
American society, and inequality and social policy.
Christopher Jencks
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. He has
taught at Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the University
of California at Santa Barbara. Earlier, he was a fellow of the Institute for
Policy Studies in Washington (1963-67) and an editor of the New Republic
(1961-63). He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the American
Prospect. His recent research deals with changes in the material standard of
living over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic
inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and
welfare reform. His books include The Academic Revolution (with David Riesman);
Inequality, Who Gets Ahead?; The Urban Underclass (with Paul Peterson);
Rethinking Social Policy; The Homeless; and The Black White Test Score Gap
(with
Meredith Phillips).
Lawrence F. Katz
Elizabeth Allison Professor of Economics
Lawrence Katz is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research
Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on
issues in the general areas of labor economics and the economics of social
problems. His work has examined a wide range of topics including wage and income
inequality; unemployment; theories of wage determination; the economics of
education; the impact of globalization and technological change on the labor
market; the economics of social interactions and neighborhood effects; the
economic effects of the birth control pill; and the evaluation of the
effectiveness of social and labor market policies. He is the author of numerous
articles in scholarly journals on these topics. Katz's recent research explores
the patterns and determinants of recent U.S. wage structure and rising labor
market inequality in an historical and international comparative context. He is
currently examining the history of economic inequality in the United States and
the roles of technological changes and the pace of educational advance in
affecting the wage structure. He is also studying the impacts of neighborhood
poverty on the socioeconomic and health outcomes of low-income families through
the evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity program, a randomized mobility
experiment providing housing vouchers to families residing in high-poverty,
inner-city housing projects.
Professor Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics
since 1991 and edited the book Differences and Changes in Wage Structures
(University of Chicago Press and NBER, 1995). He served as the Chief Economist
of the U.S. Department of Labor from January 1993 to August 1994 and was the
first Director of the Program on Children at the National Bureau of Economic
Research. Professor Katz graduated from the University of California Berkley in
1981 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1986. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1993
and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Jason Kaufman
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Jason
Kaufman is Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Sociology
Department at Harvard University. He has published papers on civic associationalism in the 19th century United States;
AIDS preventive policy and anti-discrimination law; and the cultural worlds of
American high school students.
Kaufman's book on the role of voluntary organizations and civic associations in late 19th
century American cities: For The Common Good? American Civic Life and the
Golden Age of Fraternity was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. His current
projects include:
- A major comparative history of the United States and
Canada (1763-1939).
- The path to political polarization in modern-day Vermont
and New Hampshire. This paper aims to
tease out the process whereby the political culture of two neighboring polities
diverged over time.
- The historical origins of the American business
corporation as seen through the lens of legal restrictions on the right of
incorporation.
- The relationship between high schools arts/music training
and post-secondary educational attainment.
- Contrasting conventions of artistic innovation,
cooperation, and creativity in two very different socio-cultural contexts:
avant-garde American classical music and gamelan music from the Indonesian
island of Bali.
Alexander Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy, Kennedy
School of Government Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and
Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the excavation of
issues that have contemporary policy implications. His 1986 book, Out of Work:
The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded three scholarly
prizes. His most recent book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of
Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history
by the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Keyssar is
co-author of Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and
science into the mainstream of American history, as well as co-editor of a
series on Comparative and International Working-Class History. Keyssar's current
research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the
history of poverty.
David C. King
Lecturer in Public Policy and Research Director at the
Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government
David King joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1992 after receiving his PhD
from the University of Michigan. King teaches about the U.S. Congress, interest groups, and
political parties. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of three books
focusing on Congress and on public confidence in government: The Generation of Trust: How the U.S. Military has Regained the Public's
Confidence since Vietnam (with Zachary Karabell), The American Enterprise
Institute, 2003;
Turf Wars:
How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction, University of Chicago
Press, 1997; and Why
People Don't Trust Government (with Joseph S. Nye and Philip Zelikow),
Harvard University Press, 1997. He chairs Harvard's Program for Newly Elected Members of the U.S.
Congress. In the wake of the 2000 presidential elections, he chaired the Task
Force on Election Administration on behalf of former presidents Gerald Ford and
Jimmy Carter. King oversees several large national surveys that explore youth
attitudes about politics, and his current research is on political polarization.
Gary King
David Florence Professor of Government
Gary King (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984) is the David
Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as
Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and as Senior Science
Advisor to the World Health Organization. He was elected President of the Society
for Political Methodology and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford
University. King has won the Durr Award (2005), the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the American
Statistical Association's Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the
Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993),
the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (1998 and 1993), the American Political Science
Association's Research Software Award (1992, 1994, 1997, and 2005), the Okidata Best
Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award
(1999), among others. He has authored and coauthored more than seventy journal
articles and six books in political methodology, other fields of political science, and other disciplines,
including A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing
Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data (Princeton University Press), Unifying
Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference
(University of Michigan Press), and (with Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba)
Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
(Princeton University Press). He has also authored several widely used public
domain statistical software packages that implement methods he has developed.
More than fifty other scholars, including many of his students, have
collaborated with King on published research. Many of his former students are
now faculty at leading universities. King has served on the governing councils
of the American Political Science Association, Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research, and Midwest Political Science Association, on
nineteen editorial boards, and on several National Research Council and National
Science Foundation panels. King's research has been supported by the National
Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World
Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for
Health Research, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and
corporations, foundations, and other federal agencies. His homepage can be found
at http://GKing.Harvard.Edu.
Jane Mansbridge
Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Kennedy
School of Government Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic
Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA
(co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award in
1987, and the Schuck Award in 1988), editor of Beyond Self-Interest, co-editor,
with Susan Moller Okin, of Feminism, and co-editor, with Aldon Morris, of
Oppositional Consciousness. Mansbridge's current research includes work on
feminism, representation, trust, coercion, democratic deliberation, and the
public understanding of collective action problems.
Harvey C. Mansfield
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government
Harvey C. Mansfield, '53, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government,
studies and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Edmund Burke and the
nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect
government, in defense of defensible liberalism, and in favor of a
constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery
and development of the theory of executive power, and is a translator of
Machiavelli and Tocqueville. He is now at work on a book on manliness. He was
chairman of the government department from 1973 to 1977, has held Guggenheim and
NEH Fellowships, and was on the Advisory Council of the NEH. He has hardly left
Harvard since his first arrival in 1949, and has been on the faculty since 1962.
Some people, with some reason, call him a conservative.
Lisa McGirr
Associate Professor of History
Twentieth century history, especially social and political history. Interests
include political and social movements and political cultures and ideologies.
Courses taught on the New Deal period, the 1960s, social movements and populist
conservatism. Current research focuses on the 1920s. Publications include
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton
University Press, 2001).
Thomas E. Patterson
Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Kennedy School of
Government
Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press. His
most recent book, The Vanishing Voter, looks at the causes and consequences of
declining electoral participation. His book on the media's political role, Out
of Order, received widespread attention from politicians, journalists, and
scholars. An earlier book, The Unseeing Eye, was named by the American
Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the 50 most influential books
on public opinion in the past half-century. He also is author of Mass Media
Election and two general American government texts, The American Democracy and
We the People. His articles have appeared in Political Communication,
Journal of
Communication, and other academic journals, as well as in the popular press. His
research has been funded by the Ford, Markle, Smith-Richardson, Pew, and
National Science foundations. Patterson received his PhD from the University of
Minnesota in 1971.
Paul Peterson
Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government
Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance Paul E.
Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director
of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and
Editor-In-Chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research on
education policy. He is a former director of the Center for American Political
Studies at Harvard University and of the Governmental Studies program at the
Brookings Institution. Peterson is the author or editor of over one hundred
articles and twenty-two books, including No Child Left Behind? The Politics
and Practice of School Accountability (Brookings, 2003); The Future of
School Choice ( Hoover, 2003); Our Schools and our Future...Are We Still
At Risk? (Hoover, 2003); The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools
(Brookings, 2002); Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (Brookings,
2001) ; Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (Brookings, 1999);
Learning From School Choice (Brookings, 1998); The Politics of School
Reform: 1870-1940 (University of Chicago, 1985) ; School Politics Chicago
Style (University of Chicago, 1976) ; City Limits (University of
Chicago, 1981) ; The New Urban Reality (Brookings, 1985) ; The Urban
Underclass (Brookings, 1991) ; The Price of Federalism (Brookings,
1995); and Welfare Magnets (Brookings, 1990). Three of his books have
received major awards from the American Political Science Association. After
receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago, he was a professor for many
years there in the Departments of Political Science and Education. Peterson
chaired the Social Science Research Council's Committee on the Urban Underclass
and has served on many committees of the National Research Council of the
National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and has received fellowships from
the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Foundation, and the Center for
Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His various research projects have been
supported by the Department of Education as well as the Achelis, Bradley, Bodman,
Casey, Dillon, Ford, Fordham, Friedman, Gund, Hume, Packard, Olin, Rockefeller,
Smith-Richardson, and Walton foundations. Most recently he was awarded the
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation prize for Distinguished Scholarship, part of their
Excellence in Education award program. He has also been appointed to a
Department of Education independent review panel to advise the agency in
evaluating the No Child Left Behind law.
Robert D. Putnam
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy
Director of the Saguaro Seminar
Robert D. Putnam is Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy.
Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and
Yale, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American
Philosophical Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, and past president of
the American Political Science Association. His recent books include Better
Together: Restoring the American Community (2003); Democracies in Flux:
The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society (2002); Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Disaffected
Democracies: What’s Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (2000), Making
Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (1993); Double-Edged
Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics (1993), and
Hanging Together:The Seven-Power Summits (1984). His books and articles have
been translated into sixteen languages. Making Democracy Work was praised
by the Economist as "a great work of social science, worthy to rank
alongside de Tocqueville, Pareto and Weber," and both MDW and Bowling
Alone are among the most cited publications in the social sciences worldwide
in the last several decades. He has taught at the University of Michigan and
Harvard and served on the staff of the National Security Council. He has also
served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government and Associate Dean of Arts
and Sciences at Harvard. He is currently working on three major empirical
projects: (1) the changing role of religion in contemporary America, (2) the
effects of workplace practices on family and community life, and (3) practical
strategies for civic renewal in the United States in the context of growing
social and ethnic diversity.
Nancy Rosenblum
Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government Nancy L. Rosenblum (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973) joined the Department of
Government at Harvard University in January, 2001. She is Senator Joseph S.
Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government. She was previously Henry
Merritt Wriston Professor and Professor of Political Science at Brown University
where she was founder and director of the Steven Robert Initiative for the Study
of Values. Professor Rosenblum's fields of study are the history of modern
political thought, contemporary political theory, and constitutional law. She is
the author of Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in
America (Princeton University Press, 1998), which was awarded the David
Easton Prize by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the APSA in 2002.
She is editor and contributor to Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of
Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies (Princeton
University Press, 2000); co-editor with Robert Post of Civil Society and
Government (forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2001); editor and
contributor to Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair, a
collection on interpersonal and intergroup violence
(Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2002). She is currently working on
a theoretical study of political parties in the U.S. Pieces from this project
have appeared in Columbia Law Review, Chicago Kent Law Review, and
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. Other recent work includes
"Constitutional Reason of State: The Fear Factor," essays on religion and
politics, and ongoing work on Thoreau: The Quality of Life. Earlier publications
include Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal
Thought, Bentham's Theory of the Modern State, Thoreau's Political Writings,
and the edited volume Liberalism and the Moral Life.
Robert Sampson
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson is
currently the Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Henry Ford II
Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, where he was appointed
in 2003. Before that he taught for twelve years in the Department of Sociology
at the University of Chicago and seven years at the University of Illinois.
Sampson was also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation from
1994-2002, and in the 1997-98 and 2002-03 academic years he was a Fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California. In
2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Sampson’s research interests center on crime, deviance, and
stigmatization; the life course; neighborhood effects; and the sociology of the
modern city. In the area of neighborhood effects and urban sociology his current
work is focusing on race/ethnicity and social mechanisms of ecological
inequality, the subjective meanings of disorder, spatial dynamics, the
comparative network structure of community influence, collective civic
engagement, and other topics linked to the general idea of community-level
social processes. Much of this work stems from the Project on Human Development
in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), for which Sampson serves as Scientific
Director.
Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government
Michael Sandel is Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has
taught political philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1980. He
teaches courses in contemporary political philosophy, the history of political
thought, and, at Harvard Law School, a course on "Markets, Morals, and Law." His
undergraduate course, "Justice," typically enrolls some 700-800 students. In
1985, he was awarded the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and in
1999 was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his contributions
to undergraduate teaching. Sandel is the author of
Democracy's Discontent: America In Search of a Public Philosophy(Harvard
University Press, 1996), a book that philosophy, and law. Sandel's other
publications include Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University
Press, 1982, 1997 2nd ed.; also in Italian, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese,
and Persian translations), Liberalism and Its Critics (ed., Basil Blackwell,
1984), and articles in scholarly journals, law reviews, and general publications
such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times,
and The New Republic. Sandel has lectured widely in North America, Europe,
Japan, and Australia to academic and general audiences. He has led seminars on
"Justice and Society" for the Aspen Institute, lectured at the Chautauqua
Institution and at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, addressed
gatherings of Congressional leaders and of the National League of Cities, and
worked with public school teachers and principals on issues of civic education.
In 1998, he delivered the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford University.
Sandel is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University, the Board of
Syndics of Harvard University Press, the Rhodes Scholarship Committee of
Selection, the National Constitution Center Advisory Panel, the Shalom Hartman
Institute of Jewish Philosophy (Jerusalem), and the Council on Foreign
Relations. At Harvard, he chairs the faculty advisory board of the Institute of
Politics, and the faculty committee that oversees the Moral Reasoning component
of the Core Curriculum. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa graduate of Brandeis University (1975), Sandel received his doctorate
from Oxford University (D.Phil.,1981), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has
received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned
Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives with his wife
and two sons in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Theda Skocpol
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of
Government and Sociology. From 2005 to 2007, she served as Dean of the Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences and from 2000 to 2006, she directed the Center for
American Political Studies, expanding the center from a tiny operation within
one department into a broadly interdisciplinary center supporting joint faculty
projects and graduate and undergraduate research on all aspects of modern U.S.
politics. Skocpol received her BA in 1969 from Michigan State University and
her PhD in 1975 from Harvard University. In 1996, Skocpol served as President
of the Social Science History Association, an interdisciplinary professional
group; and in 2002-2003 she served as President of the 14,000-member American
Political Science Association. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has held fellowships
from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In 2007, she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for her
"visionary analysis of the significance of the state for revolutions, welfare,
and political trust, pursued with theoretical depth and empirical evidence."
The author of nine books, nine edited collections, and more than seven dozen
articles, Skocpol is recognized as one of the most cited and widely influential
scholars in the modern social sciences; her work has contributed to the study of
comparative politics, American politics, comparative and historical sociology,
US history, and the study of public policy. Her first book, States and
Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
(1979), won the 1979 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1980 American Sociological
Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. A leader in
historical-institutional and comparative research, Skocpol edited Vision and
Method in Historical Sociology (1984) and co-edited the influential Social
Science Research Council collection Bringing the State Back In (with
Peter Evans and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 1985). For the past 15 years, Skocpol's
research has focused on US politics in historical and comparative perspective.
Her Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy
in the United States (1992), won five major scholarly awards. Skocpol's
recent books include Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Government
(1996); Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic
Life (2003); Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We
Need to Learn (co-edited with Lawrence R. Jacobs, 2005); and What a
Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for
Racial Equality (with Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, 2006). Her
current research focuses on the transformation of civic life in the United
States since the 1960s.
Sidney Verba
Carl H. Pforzheimeer University Professor
Director of the University Library
Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the
University Library, is the author and co-author of a number of books on American
and comparative politics, including Small Groups and Political Behavior
(1961), The Civic Culture (1963), Caste, Race and Politics (1969),
Vietnam and the Silent Majority (1970), Participation in America
(1972), The Changing American Voter (1976), Injury to Insult
(1979), Participation and Political Equality (1979), Equality in America (1985),
Elites and the Idea of Equality (1989), Designing Social Inquiry (1994), Voice
and Equality (1995), and The Private Roots of Public Action; as well as many
articles on those subjects. Participation in America won the Kammerer Prize of
the American Political Science Association for the best book on American
politics, and The Changing American Voter won its Woodrow Wilson Prize
for the best book in political science. In 1993, he won the James Madison Prize
of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for a career contribution
to the discipline. In 1994, he was elected president of the APSA. He is a member
of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow. He has chaired the Policy Committee
of the Social Science Research Council and the Committee on International
Conflict and Cooperation of the National Academy of Sciences. His current
research interests involve the relationship of political to economic equality,
mass and elite political ideologies, and mass political participation. Verba is
also Director of the University Library.
Mark Russell Warren
Associate Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education Mark
R. Warren is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education of Harvard
University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1995,
and then served on the sociology faculty at Fordham University in New York City.
Mark is the author of a recently published book on the Texas/Southwest
Industrial Areas Foundation, the nation's most prominent faith-based community
organizing network, entitled Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to
Revitalize American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001). Mark
directed a national survey of faith-based groups and is co-author of the study's
report, Faith-Based Community Organizing: The State of the Field
(Interfaith Funders, 2001). In 1999, he co-organized a national conference on
the role of social capital-based strategies in combating poverty sponsored by
the Ford Foundation. He is co-editor of the volume published from the conference
papers, Social Capital and Poor Communities (Russell Sage Foundation
Press, 2001).
Mark is currently working on two major projects: a study of efforts to link
urban school reform to community development and a study of white racial justice
activists in the United States. He teaches courses on education organizing,
social capital, and the relationship between communities and schools.
A former community and labor organizer himself, Mark is committed to using
the results of scholarly research to advance democratic practice, in particular
to foster community building, multiracial collaboration and school reform. He
works with community based organizations, faith communities and public schools,
and he seeks to develop commitments to social justice and action among
university students.
Mark is married to Robeta Udoh, with whom he is raising two daughters,
Folasade and Imoh.
Mary C. Waters
Harvard College Professor
Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Sociology Mary C. Waters is Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Sociology
Department. Waters came to Harvard in 1986. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in
Demography, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California
at Berkeley. Her research is in the fields of race and ethnicity, immigration
and demography. She is the author of Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in
America, a study of the meaning of ethnicity for later generation whites in
the United States, and Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and
American Realities (1999), and numerous articles on racial and ethnic
identity and immigrant assimilation. She is currently running (with colleagues
John Mollenkopf and Phillip Kasinitz of CUNY) a large study of assimilation
among young adult children of immigrants from a wide variety of countries in New
York City. This study includes a sample survey of the metropolitan area,
in-depth interviews and year long targeted ethnographies and is supported by the
Russell Sage, Ford, Mellon and Rockefeller Foundations, and the National
Institute of Health. She also studies patterns of racial intermarriage and the
identity of interracial children in surveys and censuses and the implications
these patterns have for the future composition of the American population. She
has consulted to the Census Bureau on issues of measurement of race and
ethnicity and is a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Board. She has been a
Guggenheim Fellow, a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and she is
a member of the International Immigration Committee of the Social Science
Research Council. Her most recent book, Black Identities, has won five major
awards from, among others, the American Sociological Association, the American
Political Science Association and the Eastern Sociological Society. |
