Christopher Winship

Member of Faculty, HKS
Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology, FAS
HKS Collateral Appointment (FAS)
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 103
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, the Criminal Justice Program, and The Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University. He is the author 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, particularly changes in youth unemployment, marital behavior, and prison incarceration. Another line of research has resulted in a series of articles critiquing the findings in The Bell Curve. Since 1994 he has been working with and studying a group of black inner-city ministers known as The Ten Point Coalition and their efforts with the Boston Police Department to deal with youth violence. He holds a PhD from Harvard.