Jennifer L. Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies and Harvard College Professor
Address:
Harvard University
Department of Government
CGIS - 1737 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.0181
Fax: 617.495.0438
Email: hochschild@gov.
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
Fall Courses:
SA66, "Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States"
Gov. 2576, "Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration"
Spring Courses:
Gov. 2305, "American Government and Politics: Field Seminar"
Gov 2392, "American Political Ideologies"
Biography
Jennifer Hochschild joined Harvard University's Department of Government and Department of African and African-American Studies in January 2001. She is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies. She also holds lectureships in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Prof. Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy -- particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration -- and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture.
Professor Hochschild is the co-author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); and author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981). She is also a co-author or co-editor of other books and articles. Her current book project is tentatively entitled "Unstable Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, and Multiracialism in American Politics." She is also co-editing, with John Mollenkopf, a volume on "Immigrant Political Incorporation in the United States and West Europe."
Professor Hochschild was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, published by the American Political Science Association. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former vice-president of the American Political Science Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey. She served as co-chair of the Program Committee for the annual convention of the APSA in 1996. She has received fellowships or awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Spencer Foundation, American Political Science Association, Princeton University Research Board, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Mellon Foundation, and other organizations.
Professor Hochschild has served as a consultant or expert witness in several school desegregation cases, most importantly Yonkers Board of Education v. New York State. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was twice a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Professor Hochschild taught at Duke and Columbia Universities before going to Princeton University in 1981, where she was William Steward Tod Professor of Public and International Affairs before coming to Harvard.
Professor Hochschild teaches courses and advises students on racial and ethnic politics, American political thought, power in American society, and inequality and social policy. She co-teaches the graduate field seminar in American Politics in the Government Department.
Recent Publications
American Dream and the Public Schools, with Nathan Scovronick. (Oxford University Press 2004)
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation, (Princeton University Press 1995, paperback 1996)
Social Policies for Children, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Sara McLanahan, and Irwin Garfinkel (eds.) (Brookings Institution 1996, hardcover and paperback)