Christopher Winship Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Harvard University, USA

Christopher Winship is Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Since 2005 he has also held the positions of Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology and Professor at the Kennedy School of Government. He served as Chair of the Sociology Department from 1998-2001. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University.

In 1996-1997, Christopher Winship served as chair of the American Sociological Association’s Methodology Section. In 2006 he received the Paul Lazarsfeld Award from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association.

His research focuses on explanations of changes in the social and economic status of African Americans in this century, and structural models for qualitative data. He is currently doing research on several topics: statistical models for causal analysis, the effects of education on mental ability, causes of the racial difference in performance in elite colleges and universities, and analyzing the development of a partnership to deal with youth violence by the Boston Police Department and a group of inner city black ministers known as the Ten Point Coalition.

For more information, please visit Dr. Winship's faculty profile page at  http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/winship