Lecturers/visiting faculty teaching in 2011-12
Sociology Faculty
Jason Beckfield Professor of Sociology. Stratification, health and social policy in the context of economic and political globalization. (On leave fall 2011.)
Lawrence D. Bobo W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences. Race, ethnicity, politics, and social inequality. (On leave 2011-12.)
Bart Bonikowski Assistant Professor of Sociology. Political sociology, culture, comparative and historical sociology, social networks, stratification, organizations, quantitative methods.
Mary C. Brinton Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Department Chair. Gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society.
Nicholas Christakis Professor of Sociology (FAS), and Professor of Medical Sociology (HMS). Sociology of health, illness, and mortality; demography; quantitative methodology.
Matthew Desmond Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies (beginning spring 2012). Race and ethnicity, urban sociology, poverty, housing, organizations and work, ethnography, research methods.
Frank Dobbin Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies. Comparative/historical sociology; organizational theory; economic sociology; public policy; stratification.
Filiz Garip Associate Professor of Sociology. Migration, economic sociology, statistical methodology, social networks, development inequality.
Tamara Kay Associate Professor of Sociology. Political sociology, particularly law and social movements; globalization and regional economic integration, transnationalism and global governance; economic development; international human and labor rights.
Michèle Lamont Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies. Cultural sociology, inequality, race and immigration, comparative sociology, the sociology of knowledge, and contemporary sociological theory.
Peter V. Marsden Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology, Dean of Social Science, and Harvard College Professor. Social networks; formal organizations; social stratification; methods.
Orlando Patterson John Cowles Professor of Sociology. Sociology of economic development with special reference to the Caribbean; historical sociology of slavery and freedom; sociology of slavery; Caribbean and Afro-American culture and social structure; ethnicity from a critical and social-philosophical perspective.
Robert J. Sampson Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. Crime, law, and deviance; neighborhood effects; community/urban; sociology of the city; the life course.
Theda Skocpol Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. American politics; Political sociology; social revolutions; modern welfare states; comparative historical sociology.
Jocelyn Viterna Associate Professor of Sociology. Social movements, civil society, democratization, revolution, comparative politics, gender, and qualitative methods. (On leave 2011-12.)
Mary C. Waters M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology. Social demography; race and ethnic relations; social stratification.
Bruce Western Professor of Sociology. Political and comparative sociology, stratification and inequality, and methodology.
Martin K. Whyte Professor of Sociology. Comparative sociology; comparative family systems and family change; the American family; gender roles in comparative context; inequality and stratification; bureaucracy; sociology of China; development.
William Julius Wilson Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor. Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy.
Christopher Winship Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology. Analysis of quantitative data; changes in social and economic status of African Americans; transition to adulthood; family formation process.
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Faculty Affiliates
MaryJo DelVecchio Good Professor of Social Medicine (Medical School). Medical Sociology; Health Policy; Comparative Studies: Indonesia, Middle East.
Kathryn Edin Professor of Public Policy and Management (Kennedy School of Government). Poverty/Social Inequality; Urban and Community Sociology; Family/Gender; Public Policy; Qualitative Methods.
Christopher Jencks Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy (Kennedy School of Government). Stratification/Mobility/Inequality
David R. Williams Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health (Harvard School of Public Health) and Professor of African and African American Studies. Race/ethnicity; health and society.
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Other faculty offering instruction in 2011-12
Laura Adams Lecturer on Sociology (spring 2012). Ethnic and national identity; globalization of culture; democratization and civil society; migration; former Soviet Union and the Muslim World.
David Ager Lecturer on Sociology and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Micro-sociology, social identity processes, emotions in organizations, social support networks, post-merger integration, micro transmission of culture.
Weihua An Lecturer on Sociology. Health and social policy, organizations, development, methodology.
Seth Hannah Lecturer on Sociology. Race and ethnic relations, medical sociology, racial and ethnic disparities in health, race and politics.
Alison Denton Jones Lecturer on Sociology.Sociology of religion, organizations, culture, social movements, political sociology, development, China and East Asia, research design and methods.
Christopher Marquis Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Harvard Business School) corporate government, corporate social responsibility, economic sociology, networks.
Eunmi Mun. Lecturer on Sociology (spring 2012) and Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow.Gender stratification in the labor market; organizations; labor market institutions; work and employment in East Asia.
Timothy J. Nelson Lecturer on Sociology and Social Policy. Sociology of religion; fatherhood; sociology of culture; urban work and poverty; qualitative social analysis.
Clemens Noelke Lecturer on Sociology (fall 2011). Sociology of Education and labor markets, historical/comparative stratification research, quantitative methods.
Mary Ruggie Adjunct Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School of Government). Comparative health policy, comparative social policy, gender.
Kyoko Sato Lecturer on Sociology (spring 2012). Social theory, sociology of culture, food and globalization, comparative sociology and qualitative methods.
Adam B. Seligman Visiting Professor of Sociology (Boston University). Religion, civil society, trust, authority, religious toleration, ritual.
Jennifer Silva Lecturer on Sociology (spring 2012) and ASA/NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. Cultural sociology, gender and sexuality, social inequality, feminist theory.
Kaia Stern Lecturer on Sociology (fall 2011). Mass incarceration; education in prison; transformative justice; human rights; liberation theologies; ethics/praxis; religious ideology; and race.
Cory Way Lecturer on Sociology (Allston Burr Resident Dean of Kirkland House).the intersection of crime, journalism and law in England and America; the sociology of the legal profession, with a particular focus on mentoring and professional development; and white collar crime.
Daniyal Zuberi Lecturer on Sociology (William Lyon MacKenzie King Research Fellow 2011-12).
Urban Poverty, Social Policy, Canada-U.S. Comparative Research, Labour, Education, Health, Immigration, Inequality, Social Welfare.
Emeritus Faculty
James A. Davis, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus (Visiting Professor, University of Chicago). Applied sociology/evaluation research, methods and models, social change. Email: davisj@norcmail.uchicago.edu
Nathan Glazer, Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus. Policy analysis, race and ethnic relations, urban sociology. E-mail: nglazer@fas.harvard.edu
Stanley Lieberson Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. Social determinants of tastes; logic of social research. Email: sl@wjh.harvard.edu
Lee Rainwater, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. Family, public policy, stratification/mobility. Email: lr@wjh.harvard.edu
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Research Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus. Chinese society, Japanese society, and industrial East Asia. Email: efvogel@fas.harvard.edu
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Updated: December 5, 2011
Department Chair
Mary C. Brinton
Director of Graduate Studies
Frank Dobbin
Director of Undergraduate Studies
David Ager