Methods

Theory

Stratification, Race + Employment

Community Policing + the Ten Point Coalition

Mental Ability + Education: The Bell Curve

Social Networks

Policy Analysis

Other Writing, Conference Presentations, Op-Eds + Reviews

Counterfactual Analysis Resource

Teaching

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), the Harvard Science, Technology + Society (STS) program, 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.

New + In Press:

"The Faculty-Student Low-Low Contract," Society (2011) 48:232-235.

"John Dewey: the Sociology of Action" with Christopher Muller, forthcoming in Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren (Eds), Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology Through Literature, Philosophy and Science, Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2010.

"Moral Power" with Jal Mehta, forthcoming in Hitlin, Steven and Stephen Vasey (Eds), Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Springer, 2010.

"Effect Heterogeneity and Bias in Main-Effects-Only Regression Models" with Felix Elwert, forthcoming in Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner, and Joseph Y. Halpern (Eds.), Heuristics, Probability and Causality: A Tribute to Judea Pearl, College Publicatoins, 2010.

"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.

Contact

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Office Hours

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Staff Contact

Genevieve Butler