Joscha Legewie

Joscha Legewie

Professor of Sociology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Legewie

Research interests:  Social inequality/stratification, education, race/ethnicity, quantitative methods, urban sociology, and computational social science.
 

Joscha Legewie is Professor of Sociology. He is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, the Harvard Data Science Initiative, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. His research uses quantitative methods to study urban inequality in the contemporary United States. It focuses on how inequality is created and sustained across institutions such as schools, neighborhoods and policing. Current projects include work on the social consequences and costs of policing for the education of minority youth, and the role of neighborhood boundaries for spatial dimensions of social inequality.

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William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-998-0816

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