This fall the Harvard University Department of Sociology is welcoming the first cohort of Inequality in America Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows . Please join for us for a Colloquium presentation by Anthony M. Johnson: Becoming Study Buddies: Academic Peer...
Inequality in America Initiative Workshop Series American Inequality, Globally with Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, topic TBA and Paige Sweet, IAI Postdoctoral Fellow, on "The Sociology of...
It’s a question that social scientists have struggled with for years: Why do some groups enjoy privileged status in a society while others are left behind? One possible explanation, scientists say, may lie in what’s known as Social Dominance Theory, the...
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Inequality in America Initiative Workshop Series Science, Technology, Education, and Health hosted by Evelynn Hammonds, Department Chair and Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies...
Dean of Social Science Claudine Gay last week launched a multiyear initiative on U.S. inequality while announcing a new postdoctoral fellowship to begin next fall. Putting “urgent, focused attention” on the complex problems surrounding economic growth...
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Harvard’s new Data Science Initiative had its public kickoff this week, bringing together the University’s practitioners in the field for the first of a planned series of seminars focusing on the best ways to handle and analyze data, including the...
The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: Where Students Enroll After Affirmative Action Bans David Mickey Pabello, Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnoracial Relations, Harvard Hutchins Center and Division of Social Science The study of affirmative action bans...
With more than 500,000 dead, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a nation touched by grief, compounded by the trauma of job loss, financial trouble, and everyday confusion, a mix that a Harvard psychologist said creates a complex and troubling picture of...
Social scientists have long worked to understand the roots of racial prejudice in the U.S., and for years, the story went like this: As different groups are exposed to others, their prejudice against those others increases. Brian O’Shea wasn’t buying it...