Stratification, Race + Employment
Community Policing + the Ten Point Coalition
Mental Ability + Education: The Bell Curve
Christopher Winship
Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology
Biographical Note
CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, and member of the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), was born in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in New Britain, Connecticut. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and mathematics at Dartmouth College and his graduate work in this department, receiving his degree in 1977. After leaving Harvard he did a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and a two-year fellowship at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. In 1980 he joined the Sociology Department at Northwestern University. During his twelve years at Northwestern he was Director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and for four years chair of the Department of Sociology. He was a founding member of Northwestern's Department of Statistics, and held a courtesy appointment in Economics. From 1984 to 1986 he was Director of the Economics Research Center at NORC. He has been a member of the Harvard department since 1992. Since 1995 he has been the editor of Sociological Methods + Research (SMR). He is a faculty associate of the the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and Harvard Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and is currently doing research on several topics: The Ten Point Coalition, a group of black ministers who are working with the Boston police to reduce youth violence; statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; causes of the racial difference in performance in elite colleges and universities; changes in the racial differential in imprisonment rates over the past sixty years.
Curriculum Vitae New + In Press:
"What Can Cities Do to Prevent Serious Youth Violence?" with Anthony Braga in Criminal Justice Matters 75: Perspectives from North America, 2009.
"Social Interactions, Groups and Scheduling Constraints" In the Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, Oxford University Press, 2009.
"Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston" with Anthony Braga and David Hureau, Ohio State Law Journal, 2009.
Papers + Publications by Topic
Methodology Community Policing + the Ten Point Coalition Stratification, Race + Employment
Mental Ability + Education: The Bell Curve Controversy
Social Networks Policy Analysis
Other Writings, Op-Eds + Reviews
SUGGESTED LINKS
Applied Statistics Workshop
Culture + Social Analysis Workshop
Urban Social Processes Workshop
Counterfactual Analysis Resource
10/29/2009
Courses Offered This Academic Year
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Sociology 203a ( fall 2009 ) |
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods | Catalog #3315 |
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United States in the World 24 ( fall 2009 ) |
Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City | Catalog #9395 |
A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years
| Quantitative Reasoning 36 | Statistics and Public Policy |
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| Sociology 19 | Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City |
| Sociology 95 | Research for Nonprofits |
| Sociology 96 | Individual Community Research Internship |
| Sociology 166 | Poverty, Public Policy, and Controversy |
| Sociology 203c | Analysis of Categorical Data |
| Sociology 266 | Social Foundations of Justice |
| Sociology 303a | Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research |
| Government 3009 | Research Workshop in Applied Statistics |
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Contact
617-495-9821
(Phone)
617-496-5794
(FAX)
620 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Hours
by appointment
On leave, spring 2010