Jennifer Hochschild

Member of Faculty
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox NR
79 JFK Street
Contact
Phone: 617-496-0181
Email: jennifer_hochschild@hks.harvard.edu
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Profile

Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy, particularly racial and ethnic politics and policy, immigration, educational and social policy, and public opinion or political culture. Hochschild is coauthor of The American Dream and the Public Schools and author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation; The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation; and What’s Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. She coedited Social Policies for Children. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Destabilizing the American Racial Order: Immigration, Multiracialism, DNA, and Youth. She was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics. She received her PhD from Yale University in 1979.

Courses

Spring

  • SUP-922 Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy II