Jennifer Hochschild, 2015 - 2016

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and a former Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She holds Lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2011, she held the John W. Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress, and in 2013-14, she was a Fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at NYU Law School.

Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics, history, and political philosophy; she focuses especially on race, ethnicity, and immigration. She also studies educational and social welfare policies, the politics and ideology of genomic science, and public opinion and political culture. Most recently, Hochschild co-edited "Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation" (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-authored "Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America" (Princeton University Press, 2012). Her forthcoming book, also co-authored, is "Facts in Politics: What Do Citizens Know and What Difference Does It Make?" (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).

Hochschild was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, and a recent co-editor of the American Political Science Review. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, former co-chair of the annual convention and vice-president of the APSA, a former member of the boards of trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation and General Social Survey, and a former member of the DBASSE Advisory Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson, Mellon, Spencer, and Guggenheim Foundations, the American Council of Learned Societies, and other organizations. Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton universities before moving to Harvard in 2001. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University and her B.A. from Oberlin College.