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Timothy Nelson
Harvard Kennedy School
- Office Address
- Taubman-454
- Mailing Address
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John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 104
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
- Contact
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Phone: 617-495-1462
Email: Tim_Nelson@ksg.harvard.edu
- Assistant
- Nicole Grenier (617-496-4082)
Profile
strong>Timothy Nelson is Lecturer in Social Policy. His research focuses on low-income, non-custodial fathers, as well as congregational studies and African American religion. His most recent publication is Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Congregation. His next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein). Nelson received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1997 and has also taught at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Courses
Fall
- API-207 Qualitative Methods in Policy Research
Year
- HLE-150Y Seminar: Human Services, Labor and Education Policy and Management