Jennifer Hochschild

Jennifer Hochschild
Title	Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard College Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Oberlin College
Academic work
Institutions	Harvard University

Jennifer Lucy Hochschild (born September 17, 1950) is an American political scientist. She serves as the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University. She is also a member of the faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government.[1]

Education

Hochschild received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.[2]

Career

Hochschild was the 2015–2016 President of the American Political Science Association.[3]

In 2019, Hochschild was on the ad hoc committee involved in denying tenure to Lorgia García Peña, an Afro-Latina professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. According to a New Yorker article, Hochschild had characterized Peña's work as "not research, but activism."[4]

In February 2022, Hochschild was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to The Harvard Crimson defending professor John Comaroff after he was placed on unpaid leave for violating the university's sexual and professional conduct policies.[5] After Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's sexual harassment, Hochschild and other professors said they wished to retract their signatures.[6]

In January 2024, Hochschild questioned the Harvard credentials of Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and graduate of Harvard Extension School who at the time of Hochschild's comments was a leading critic of Harvard Predident Claudine Gray. Rufo had previously stated that he was a Harvard graduate without mentioning the HES affiliation. Hochschild, who taught courses at HES, wrote on Twitter that the school's students were "great" but "not what we typically normally think of as Harvard graduate students." The Harvard Extension Student Association said that it was "deeply concerned and disappointed" by Hochschild's remarks. In response, Hochschild apologized for her comments, clarifying that "students should proudly state their HES degree".[7][8]

Works

• What’s Fair: American Beliefs and Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981)[9][10]
• The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984)[11][12]
• Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995)[13][14][15][16]
• ed. Social Policies for Children with Sara McLanahan and Irwin Garfinkel (Brookings Institution, 1996)
• The American Dream and the Public Schools with Nathan Scovronick (Oxford University Press, 2003)[17][18]
• Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America with Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch (Princeton University Press, 2012)[19][20][21][22]
• ed. Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation with Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa (Oxford University Press, 2013)[23]

References

1. "Jennifer L. Hochschild". aaas.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
2. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/documents/jennifer-hochschild-52777.pdf ^[bare URL PDF]
3. "American Political Science Association > ABOUT > Leadership & Governance > APSA Presidents and Presidential Addresses: 1903 to Present". www.apsanet.org. American Political Science Association. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
4. Mochkofsky, Graciela (27 July 2021). "Why Lorgia García Peña Was Denied Tenure at Harvard". The New Yorker. New Yorker. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
5. "38 Harvard Faculty Sign Open Letter Questioning Results of Misconduct Investigations into Prof. John Comaroff". www.thecrimson.com. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 9 Feb 2022.
6. "3 graduate students file sexual harassment suit against prominent Harvard anthropology professor". www.bostonglobe.com. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 9 Feb 2022.
7. Agbenyega, Kirsten O.; Pische, Lenny R. (2024-01-13). "Harvard Prof. Hochschild Apologizes For Comments on Rufo Extension School Degree". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on 2024-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
8. Craig, Ryan (2024-01-19). "Pretty Much the Only Thing I Learned From the Harvard Disaster". Inside Higher Ed. Archived from the original on 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
9. Cohen, Ronald L. (1984). "Review of What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice". Political Psychology. 5 (2): 315–318. doi:10.2307/3791196. JSTOR 3791196.
10. Levy, Michael B. (1983-05-01). "What's Fair?: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Jennifer L. Hochschild". The Journal of Politics. 45 (2): 520–521. doi:10.2307/2130149. ISSN 0022-3816. JSTOR 2130149.
11. Newborn, Mary Jo (1986). "Review of The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation". Michigan Law Review. 84 (4/5): 990–994. doi:10.2307/1288868. JSTOR 1288868.
12. Wildavsky, Aaron (Winter 1986). "Book review: The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. By Jennifer L. Hochschild". Constitutional Commentary. 3 (1): 161–173. hdl:11299/164751.
13. "Nonfiction Book Review: Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Author Princeton University Press $72 (415p) ISBN 978-0-691-02957-3". Publishers Weekly. August 21, 1995. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
14. Sinopoli, Richard C. (1998-01-01). "Jennifer L. Hochschild, Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation". Ethics. 108 (2): 435–437. doi:10.1086/233819. ISSN 0014-1704. S2CID 171374762.
15. Winant, Howard (1996-05-01). "Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of a Nation. Jennifer L. Hochschild". American Journal of Sociology. 101 (6): 1756–1758. doi:10.1086/230891. ISSN 0002-9602.
16. Feagin, Joe R. (June 1996). "Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation. By Hochschild Jennifer L.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 412p. $29.95". American Political Science Review. 90 (2): 429–430. doi:10.2307/2082923. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 2082923. S2CID 146763551.
17. "Nonfiction Book Review: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Author, Nathan Scovronick, Joint Author . Oxford Univ. $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-19-515278-4". Publishers Weekly. February 3, 2003. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
18. Lugg, Catherine A. (2005-05-01). "The American Dream and the Public Schools by Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick". American Journal of Education. 111 (3): 421–424. doi:10.1086/429113. ISSN 0195-6744.
19. Morning, Ann (2013). "Review of Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (3): 393–395. doi:10.1177/0094306113484702j. JSTOR 23524481. S2CID 145142457.
20. Lee, Jennifer (2013-01-01). "Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, and Traci R. Burch". American Journal of Sociology. 118 (4): 1125–1127. doi:10.1086/668540. ISSN 0002-9602. S2CID 147571307.
21. Eisenberg, Martin (2013-05-01). "Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics and the Young Can Remake Race in America". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 36 (5): 923–925. doi:10.1080/01419870.2012.748214. ISSN 0141-9870. S2CID 143917773.
22. Smith, Rogers M. (2013-05-01). "Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics and the Young Can Remake Race in America by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla Weaver, and Traci Burch. Princeton, NJ". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (1): 161. doi:10.1002/polq.12027. ISSN 1538-165X.
23. Galandini, Silvia (2014-09-01). "The Political Integration of Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities in the United States and Europe: Theories, Concepts and Empirical Evidence". European Political Science. 13 (3): 293–296. doi:10.1057/eps.2014.7. ISSN 1680-4333. S2CID 153709870.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN