About the chapter
Boston SSN brings together scholars from a broad range of policy fields at Harvard, MIT, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts, and other Boston area universities. Members are particularly interested in strategies to address rising economic inequality, strengthen the integrity of American democracy, and ensure the successful implementation of health care reform. Other interests include the challenges faced by low-income mothers, the consequences of the prison boom, environmental policy, immigration policy, and school reform.
Leaders
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Policy
Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies, Fitchburg State University
Members
Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Director of Research, MIT Libraries, and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researcher, Center for Social Policy and PhD Candidate in Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine and Executive Director, Silent Spring Institute
Associate Professor and Chair of Social Sciences Department, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Lesley University
Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
Department Head and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University
Chairperson of the Sociology Department, Salem State University, Coordinator of the African American Studies Minor
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Director, PhD Program in Law and Public Policy; and Senior Research Associate, Dukakis Center, Northeastern University
Associate Professor of Government and Chair of the Government Department, Suffolk University
SRCD/AAAS Policy Fellow at the National Institutes of Health; Part-Time Instructor, Boston University
Business Analyst for Management Consultancy and former Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Ford Professor of Economics and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts
Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Head, Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rose Professor of Urban Economics Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Lecturer, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Past President of the American Political Science Association
Associate Professor of Sociology (on sabbatical), Tufts University; Visiting Researcher (for 2017-2018), Russell Sage Foundation
Smith Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; and Research Associate, National Bureau of Education Research
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University; Co-Director, Boston Area Research Initiative, Northeastern and Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
PhD Candidate in Education and Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor of Human Resources and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University
Professor of Economics and Co-Director of Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Frank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring, University of Massachusetts Boston
Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics in Government and Politics, Harvard University
Professor of Government and Acting Provost for Student Success, Suffolk University
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University; Affiliated Research Professor, American Bar Foundation
Assistant Professor of Economics and Management, Westfield State University
Assistant Professor of Leadership in Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Professor of Sociology, Suffolk University
Senior Researcher, Center for Women's Health and Human Rights
Director of the Scholars Strategy Network; Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Researcher and PhD Candidate in Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University
Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Associate Professor of Political Science, Founding Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Stonehill College
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government, Harvard University
Professor of Healthcare Studies, Salem State University; Founding Director, Center for Childhood & Youth Studies; and Policy Chair, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University
Assistant Research Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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