Christopher Winship

Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology
HKS Collateral Appointment (FAS)
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Contact
Phone: 617-495-9821
Fax: 617-496-5794
Email: cwinship@wjh.harvard.edu
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Christopher Winship is the Edmund Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a member of the senior faculty in the Kennedy School. He is a research associate in the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and in the Criminal Justice Program. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University as well as a senior faculty research associate in the universitys Institute for Policy Research. He is the author of a variety of articles on various statistical issues including the analysis of qualitative dependent variables, selection bias, and counterfactual causal analysis. His research has also focused on changes in the social and economic status of African-Americans during the 20th century. In particular, he has examined changes in youth unemployment, marital behavior, and prison incarceration. For the past eight years he has been working with and studying a group of black inner-city ministers known as The Ten Point Coalition. He holds a PhD from Harvard.