Professor Jennifer Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University
Jennifer Hochschild joined Harvard's Government Department in January 2001, and is now the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor. She also holds lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education.
Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy - particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration - and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. She is the co-author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); and author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981).
Hochschild was the founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, published by the American Political Science Association. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former vice-president of the American Political Science Association, a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, and a former member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey.
Hochschild taught at Duke University and Columbia University before going to Princeton in 1981, where she was William Steward Tod Professor of Public and International Affairs before moving to Harvard. She teaches courses on racial and ethnic politics, American political thought, power in American society, and inequality and social policy.
We caught up with Professor Hochschild during her visit to the US Studies Centre
