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...were recently honored to welcome sociologist William Julius Wilson to the Kennedy School of Government, and we are proud to roll out the red carpet once again. The Kennedy School has announced that it has tenured three more noted scholars: sociologist Christopher Jencks, anthropologist Katherine Newman and labor economist George Borjas...
Sociologist Christopher Jencks of Northwestern University, anthropologist Katherine Newman of Columbia University and labor economist George Borjas of the University of California at San Diego will all join Wilson at the Kennedy School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy in the fall...
...Borjas, Jencks, Newman and Wilson are academic all-stars," Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye said in a press release. "Together with our existing faculty, the school and the Wiener Center now [have] one of the finest groups of people ever assembled to tackle the extraordinary challenges of poverty, crime, poor health and economic and social deprivation...
...Newman has written extensively about the urban working poor, including Falling From Grace, a book exploring the cultural and familial consequences of corporate downsizing...
...Kennedy School's recent success in recruiting Wilson from Chicago may have been a factor in attracting Jencks, Newman and Borjas, according to Kennedy School spokesperson Steve Singer said...