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Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and
member of the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS)

Biographical Note

CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, 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 and Research (SMR). He is currently a faculty associate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and Harvard Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and 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.

Papers & Publications by Topic

Carriculum Vitae

Methods

Community Policing & the Ten Point Coalition

Stratification, Race & Emplotment

Mental Ability & Education: The Bell Curve Controversy

Social Networks

Policy Analysis

Other Writings, Op-Eds & Reviews

Counterfactual Analysis Resource

Causal Inferences in the Social Sciences

Courses Offered This Academic Year

Sociology 203a ( fall 2007 )	Advanced Quantitative Research Methods	Catalog #3315
Sociology 95 ( 2007-08 )	Research for Non-Profits	Catalog #0136
Sociology 96 ( 2007-08 )	Individual Community Research Internship	Catalog #7425
Sociology 303a ( 2007-08 )	Advanced Topics in Quantitative Research	Catalog #5636
Sociology 19 ( Spring 2008 )	Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City	Catalog #9395

A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years

Quantitative Reasoning 36	Statistics and Public Policy
Sociology 136	Research for Nonprofits
Sociology 166	Poverty, Public Policy, and Controversy
Sociology 203c	Analysis of Categorical Data
Sociology 266	Social Foundations of Justice
Government 3009	Research Workshop in Applied Statistics