The Harvard University Department of Sociology

Jessica T. Simes

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Jessica Simes is a Graduate Affiliate with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy. Originally from Los Angeles, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College with a BA in Sociology. In 2011 she served as a Rappaport Policy Fellow at the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Her current research investigates the relationship between "place" and imprisonment in the United States context. She is also currently researching how immigrants experience the U.S. criminal justice system in the post-9/11 era.

11/21/2011
Research Interests
Incarceration, Inequality, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Immigration/Migration, Urban Sociology, and Social Policy
Previous Degrees
B.A., Occidental College
Teaching Experience
USW24 Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City Teaching Fellow

Presentations and Publications

"Does Anti-Semitism Among African Americans Simply Reflect Anti- White Sentiment?" Social Science Journal 46: 384-389. June 2009

 

 

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