Bruce Western

Member of Faculty, HKS
Professor of Sociology, FAS
Director
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Office Address
Taubman-416
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 104
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3879
Email: western@wjh.harvard.edu
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Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology. His research interests are in the field of social stratification and inequality, political sociology, and statistical methods. He is the author of Punishment and Inequality in America, a study of the growth and social impact of the American penal system. His first book, Between Class and Market, examined the development and decline of labor unions in the postwar industrialized democracies. He is currently studying the social impact of rising income inequality in the United States. Western taught at Princeton from 1993 to 2007 and received his PhD in sociology from UCLA.

Courses

Fall

  • SUP-923 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy III

Not Offered

  • SUP-702 Sociology of Crime and Punishment

Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles
    • Pager, Devah, and Bruce Western. "Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments." Journal of Social Issues 68.2 (June 2012): 221-237.