Jennifer Hochschild

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Jennifer Hochschild
TitleHenry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard College Professor
Academic background
Alma mater Oberlin College

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]

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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, after facing backlash from Harvard Extension School (HES) affiliates for remarks she made on X which were perceived as denigrating students at the school, Hochschild apologized. In a series of posts on X, Hochschild — a Government and African and African American Studies professor who teaches at Harvard and HES — suggested that conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo, who emerged as a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay, had misrepresented his master’s degree from the Extension School. Hochschild wrote on X that HES students were "great" but "not what we typically normally think of as Harvard graduate students." The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) published that it was "deeply concerned and disappointed" by Hochschild's remarks. HESA stated that although Hochschild attempted to backtrack on her statements, the initial message conveyed a different sentiment, one that undermines the value and reputation of Harvard Extension School, and further that generalizations that denigrate HES students do more than unjustly diminish individual achievements; they erode the foundational values of diversity, respect, and academic rigor that are essential to the fabric of Harvard University, and all of its degree-granting schools. [7] [8]

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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.
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