Executive Committee

Anya Bernstein Basset

Senior Lecturer in Social Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies

Anya Bernstein Bassett is the Director of Studies in Social Studies and a Senior Lecturer.

Anya received her B.A. from Barnard College in 1990 and...

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History

Professor Beckert researches and teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on the history of capitalism...

Eric Beerbohm

Professor of Government Political Theory

Eric Beerbohm is Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Graduate Fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. His...

Lawrence D Bobo

W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Chair, Department of African and African American Studies

Lawrence D. Bobo holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. ...

Daniel Carpenter

Allie S. Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Social Science Academic Ventures Program at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University

Daniel Carpenter is the Allie S.Freed Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Social Science Academic Ventures...

Lizabeth Cohen

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor American Studies and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author...

Frank Dobbin

Professor of Sociology

Frank Dobbin received his BA from Oberlin College in 1980 and his PhD from Stanford University in 1987. Dobbin studies organizations, inequality, economic...

Diana L. Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society

Diana Eck's work on the United States focuses especially on the challenges of religious pluralism in a multireligious society. Since 1991, she has...

Ryan D. Enos

Associate Professor

Ryan Enos is an Associate Professor of Government and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science specializing in American Politics,...

Richard B. Freeman

Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and...

Claudine Gay

Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies

Claudine Gay is the Dean of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Wilbur A.Cowett Professor of Government, and Professor of African and...

Claudia Goldin

Henry Lee Professor of Economics

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program. ...

Jennifer Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies American Politics

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard...

Christopher Jencks

Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government

Christopher Sandy Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy. He has taught at Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and the...

Lawrence F. Katz

Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics

Lawrence Katz is the Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research....