1. Robert J. Sampson, a Fellow of the American Academy since 2005, is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His recent publications include Neighborhood Effects: Social Structure and Community in the American City (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press); “Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City: Social (Dis)Order Revisited,” British Journal of Sociology (2009); and “Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiments Meet Social Structure,” American...
2. Charles Loeffler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and a former research associate at the U.S. Sentencing Commission. His research is currently focused on estimating the causal effects of imprisonment. In addition, he is exploring new techniques for visualizing urban migration patterns.