Undergrad News and Events
12/09/2022
Professor Winship will be missed!! Thank you for your many years guiding grad students and undergrads.
Behind the data, a teacher who left students transformed Harvard sociologist Chris Winship’s last class is a cause for celebration and reflection.
12/06/2022
Welcome new concentrators! Great showing at Sushi with Sociology. It was also Laura Thomas’s last semester as she retires in a few weeks.
12/01/2022
Congratulations to Professor Robert J Sampson!
Harvard names three new University Professors Catherine Dulac, Robert J. Sampson, and Arlene Sharpe have been named Harvard University Professors, Harvard’s highest distinction for a faculty member.
10/27/2022
Congratulations to Ann Owens, a graduate of Harvard's Sociology and Social Policy PhD program, and Chris Muller, a graduate of Harvard's Sociology PhD program!
Alums Chris Muller and Ann Owens were co-winners of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award Chris Muller (Berkeley) and Ann Owens (USC) were co-winners of the ASA Section on Inequality, Poverty and Mobility's William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. This award recognizes a scholar who has made major contributions early in his/her career.
10/27/2022
A graduate of the Harvard Sociology PhD program, Beth Truesdale, co-edited "“Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.”
We’re living longer so that just means we work longer, right? The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.
10/20/2022
Congratulations to Professor Ellis Monk and the other researchers who received NIH funding!
Harvard Researchers Receive NIH Funding for Biomedical, Behavioral, and Social Sciences Research | News | The Harvard Crimson Nine Harvard researchers are set to receive a total of more than $200 million in grants over the next five years through a National Institutes of Health program that funds “high-risk, high-reward” research.
10/18/2022
Congratulations, LyLena D. Estabine '24!
LyLena D. Estabine '24 Receives Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship The Obama Chesky Voyager Scholarship supports students who are interested in pursuing work in public service.This is the scholarship's inaugural cohort.
10/12/2022
Congratulations, Alexandra Murray '19!
Georgetown Bound: Ms. Murray to graduate again, departing School for second time After returning to Benjamin as a faculty member for two years, Ms. Alexandra Murray ‘15 will be leaving the Benjamin family to pursue a degree from Georgetown University’s Law School. Ms. Murray was an active member of the faculty throughout her recent time at Benjamin, coaching both the JV socc...
08/10/2022
Danilo Mandić comments on Kosovo separatist escalation in Time Magazine, August 2, 2022 edition.
A Dispute Over License Plate Rules Is a Reminder of Deep Kosovo-Serbia Tensions Protests broke out on Sunday evening over a measure requiring Serbs in northern Kosovo to get local license plates.
08/09/2022
Rob Sampson's and Rebecca Bucci's survey of January 6 perspectives featured in the Harvard Gazette Professor Rob Sampson and Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Bucci are featured in the Harvard Gazette for their survey on how Americans view the January 6 Capitol attack.
07/19/2022
Congratulations to Professor Ellis Monk!
Teaching algorithms about skin tones Google adopts sociologist’s skin-tone scale, which aims to promote inclusion, diversity, help fix problems in facial recognition, other technologies.