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1	Name:	Dr. Daniel Bell
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1978
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1919
	Death Date:	January 15, 2011

	Daniel Bell was a sociologist and professor emeritus at Harvard University and a former scholar in residence of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He taught sociology at the University of Chicago from 1945-48 and Columbia University from 1952-69. He was also known for his contributions as an editor to The Public Interest Magazine, Fortune and The New Leader as well as for his studies of post-industrialism. Dr. Bell's influential books include The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). The End of Ideology and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism appeared on the Times Literary Supplement's list of the 100 most important books of the second half of the twentieth century. Dr. Bell has long theorized on a new kind of society that would be information-led and service-oriented. A perceptive and imaginative student of changing contemporary society, Dr. Bell has seen many of his forecasts come true.

2	Name:	Dr. Lawrence D. Bobo
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2008
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1958

	Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies. His research focuses on the intersection of social inequality, politics, and race. Professor Bobo is an elected member of the National Academy of Science as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alphonse M. Fletcher Sr. Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. He has held tenured appointments in the sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Stanford University where he was Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly. He is a founding editor of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-author of the award winning book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, 1997, with H. Schuman, C. Steeh, and M. Krysan) and senior editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, with M. L. Oliver, J. H. Johnson, and A. Valenzuela). His most recent book Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute (Harvard University Press, 2006, with M. Tuan) was a finalist for 2007 C. Wright Mills Award. He is currently working on the "Race, Crime, and Public Opinion" project. Lawrence D. Bobo was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2008.

3	Name:	Dr. Christopher Jencks
	Institution:	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2004
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1936

	For decades, Christopher Jencks has studied such controversial subjects as economic inequality, race, education and social mobility, and homelessness. His work is meticulously researched, methodologically ingenious, relentlessly logical, and consistently dispassionate. One of the world's most eminent social scientists engaged in policy research, he is perceptive in identifying the causes of social problems and adept in connecting evidence and policy choices. Recently, he has dealt with "paradoxes of welfare reform," the intractability of the black-white test score gap, the contributions of conservative and liberal policies to homelessness and why the United States generates so many low wage jobs. Whatever one's political predispositions, his studies are always illuminating and persuasive. Currently the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Jencks has also taught at Northwestern University (1980-96), and from 1961-63 he served as associate editor of The New Republic. His published works include Inequality (1972); Who Gets Ahead? (1979); Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass (1992); The Homeless (1994); and (with M. Phillips) The Black White Test Score Gap (1998). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997).

4	Name:	Dr. Stanley Lieberson
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2007
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1933
	Death Date:	March 19 2018

	Stanley Lieberson was the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Research Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. He was born in Montreal and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After two years at Brooklyn College, he was admitted to the graduate program at the University of Chicago, where he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He taught at a number of institutions and had been a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University since 1988. Lieberson was named the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Sociology in 1991. Much of his career involved work on race and ethnic relations in both the United States and elsewhere. His dissertation won the University's Colver-Rosenberger Prize, and was later revised and published by the Free Press as Ethnic Patterns in American Cities. He wrote a number of other books dealing with race and ethnic relations, along with numerous papers on this topic in the leading journals. One of these books, A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880, received the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association. In later years, he had developed two new interests: one is a re-examination of the reasoning underlying our research. This led to the publication of Making It Count: The Improvement of Social Research and Theory. The second new interest was in using first names to study how tastes and fashions operate and, in turn, contribute to an understanding as to how cultural change occurs. A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change (Yale University Press, 2000), used first names as a way to uncover the stunningly orderly mechanisms underlying changes in tastes and fashions, as well as cultural changes more generally. The book was the co-winner, Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, Culture Section (2001) from the American Sociological Association, and the winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society (2002). Lieberson's long-term project was to develop a new approach to a wide variety of issues connected with the use of evidence in the non-experimental social sciences. Lieberson was a President of the American Sociological Association, the Sociological Research Association, and the Pacific Sociological Association. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. He was the co-recipient of the Paul M. Lazarsfeld Award for contributions in Methodology from the American Sociological Association. Lieberson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was named an honorary member of the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007. Stanley Lieberson died March 19, 2018, at the age of 84, in Newton, Massachusetts.

5	Name:	Dr. David Riesman
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1974
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1909
	Death Date:	May 10, 2002

6	Name:	Dr. Robert J. Sampson
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2011
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	Robert Sampson’s work has focused on the social organization of cities, contributing path-breaking research on the effects of neighborhoods on crime and social inequality. Early on he began tracking the careers of men born during the Depression and incarcerated during adolescence, following them to age 70. He demonstrated marked differences in the extent of later criminal behavior, and that its forms were linked to the social bonds they formed as well as changes in their individual attitudes. Later, his studies of race and crime, on the social meaning and implications of “visible” disorder in cities, the tangled effects of social inequality and its spatial concentrations, and the character of collective civic engagement in cities from the 1960s through the current period have sharpened our understanding of these important phenomena. He is known for having introduced careful distinctions between individual and contextual effects and for using new spatial techniques in systematic social observation to address old questions such as why the distribution of poverty across Chicago neighborhoods has remained stable despite marked shifts in population within them. Sampson has consistently shown a fine-tuned sense for important research problems, has devised original procedures for data collection and analysis and in so doing, has strongly influenced the agenda for studies of urban phenomena, world-wide. He earned his Ph.D. from State University of New York in 1983. He is the author of several works, including: (with T. Castellano, J. Laub) Juvenile Criminal Behavior and Its Relation to Neighborhood Characteristics, 1981; (with J. Laub) Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life, 1993; (with G. Squires, M. Zhou) How Neighborhoods Matter: The Value of Investing at the Local Level, 2001; (with J. Laub) Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70, 2003. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2005, the National Academy of Sciences in 2006, and the American Philosophical Society in 2011. He was recently awarded the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2011).

7	Name:	Dr. Mary Waters
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2005
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1956

	Mary Waters grew up in Brooklyn, New York and received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University (1978) and an M.A. in sociology (1981), an M.A. in demography (1983), and a Ph.D. in sociology (1986) from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University since 1986 as assistant professor (1986-90), associate professor (1990-93), professor (1993-) and Harvard College Professor (a named chair to honor excellence in teaching) (1999-2005) and Chair of the Department (2001-2005, acting Chair 2007), and M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology. In 2018 she was appointed the John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology. Professor Waters' research is in the fields of race and ethnicity, immigration and demography. She is co-director (with John Mollenkopf and Philip Kasinitz of City University of New York) of the New York Second Generation Project. This study examines the lives of the new second generation -- young adults whose parents were immigrants to the United States from China, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, the West Indies and Russia -- contrasted with samples of comparable native born whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans. This project, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Russell Sage, Mellon, Ford, Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations, includes a random sample survey of New York and its suburbs, in depth life history interviews with 350 young people, and seven ethnographic studies conducted throughout the city by a team of ethnographers. In 2002-03 a longitudinal element was added as these young people were re-interviewed as part of a large nationwide study of the transition to adulthood, part of the MacArthur Network on the Transition to Adulthood. The first book from this project, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation was published in 2004. Dr. Waters is also the co-editor (with historian Reed Ueda of Tufts University) of The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965 . This handbook updates the landmark Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, which was originally published in 1980. She is also directing a multi-site qualitative study of the transition to adulthood in the contemporary United States. This study examines the process of leaving home, finishing education, beginning work, finding a partner and becoming a parent across a wide variety of racial, ethnic and immigrant groups, as well as across different regions of the United States. Dr. Waters is the author of numerous articles and books on the subject of race, ethnicity and immigration. Her book, Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (1999) is the winner of the Mirra Komorovsky Award of the Eastern Sociological Society for the best book published in 1999-2000, the 2001 Otis Dudley Duncan Award of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, the 2001 Thomas and Znaniecki Award of the International Migration Section of the ASA, the 1999 Best Book Award of the Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics of the American Political Science Association, and the 1999-2000 Distinguished Book Award of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University. Her other books include From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America (with Stanley Lieberson, 1988); Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America (1990); The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multi-Racial Individuals (with Joel Perlmann, 2002); The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (with Peggy Levitt, 2002); and Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective (co-edited with Fiona Devine, 2004). Professor Waters was a Guggenheim Fellow (1993-94) and a Visiting Scholar at Russell Sage (1991-92). She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Economic and Demographic Impacts of Immigration on the U.S. She has consulted to the Census Bureau and testified before Congress on issues of measurement of race and ethnicity and is a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. She is a member of the International Migration Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005 and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2006. Mary Waters and her husband, Ric Bayly, have three children, Katie, Harry and Maggie. They live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

8	Name:	Dr. William Julius Wilson
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	1990
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1935

	William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include urban poverty, urban race and class relations, and social inequality in cross-cultural perspective. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; When Work Disappears; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. In 2006 he published There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. A sociologist with a Ph.D. from Washington State University, Dr. Wilson has previously served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1965-71) and the University of Chicago (1972-96) and directed the latter's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. A MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, Dr. Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the Institute of Medicine. His current projects include studies of race and the social organization of neighborhoods, the effects of high-risk neighborhoods on adolescent social outcomes, and the effects of welfare reform on poor families and children. In 2017 he won the SAGE-CASBS Award.