Jennifer L. Hochschild

Jennifer Hochschild joined Harvard University’s Department of Government and Department of African and African-American Studies in January 2001. She is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies. She also holds lectureships in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Prof. 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.

Professor Hochschild 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). She is also a co-author or co-editor of other books and articles. Her current book project is tentatively entitled “Unstable Boundaries: Skin Color, Immigration, and Multiracialism in American Politics.” She is also co-editing, with John Mollenkopf, a volume on “Immigrant Political Incorporation in the United States and West Europe.

Professor Hochschild teaches courses and advises students on racial and ethnic politics, American political thought, power in American society, and inequality and social policy. She co-teaches the graduate field seminar in American Politics in the Government Department.

Contact information:
- Department of African and African American Studies