Harvard Sociology Undergrads

12/09/2022

Professor Winship will be missed!! Thank you for your many years guiding grad students and undergrads.

Harvard sociologist Chris Winship’s last class is a cause for celebration and reflection.

12/06/2022

Welcome new concentrators! Great showing at Sushi with Sociology. It was also Laura Thomas’s last semester as she retires in a few weeks.

12/01/2022

Congratulations to Professor Robert J Sampson!

Catherine Dulac, Robert J. Sampson, and Arlene Sharpe have been named Harvard University Professors, Harvard’s highest distinction for a faculty member.

10/27/2022

Congratulations to Ann Owens, a graduate of Harvard's Sociology and Social Policy PhD program, and Chris Muller, a graduate of Harvard's Sociology PhD program!

Chris Muller (Berkeley) and Ann Owens (USC) were co-winners of the ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility's William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. This award recognizes a scholar who has made major contributions early in his/her career.

10/27/2022

A graduate of the Harvard Sociology PhD program, Beth Truesdale, co-edited "“Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.”

The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.

10/20/2022

Congratulations to Professor Ellis Monk and the other researchers who received NIH funding!

Nine Harvard researchers are set to receive a total of more than $200 million in grants over the next five years through a National Institutes of Health program that funds “high-risk, high-reward” research.

10/18/2022

Congratulations, LyLena D. Estabine '24!

The Obama Chesky Voyager Scholarship supports students who are interested in pursuing work in public service.This is the scholarship's inaugural cohort.

10/12/2022

Congratulations, Alexandra Murray '19!

After returning to Benjamin as a faculty member for two years, Ms. Alexandra Murray ‘15 will be leaving the Benjamin family to pursue a degree from Georgetown University’s Law School. Ms. Murray was an active member of the faculty throughout her recent time at Benjamin, coaching both the JV socc...

08/10/2022

Danilo Mandić comments on Kosovo separatist escalation in Time Magazine, August 2, 2022 edition.

Protests broke out on Sunday evening over a measure requiring Serbs in northern Kosovo to get local license plates.

08/09/2022

Professor Rob Sampson and Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Bucci are featured in the Harvard Gazette for their survey on how Americans view the January 6 Capitol attack.

07/19/2022

Congratulations to Professor Ellis Monk!

Google adopts sociologist’s skin-tone scale, which aims to promote inclusion, diversity, help fix problems in facial recognition, other technologies.