Teaching

Christopher Winship

Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology and
Acting Chair (fall 2008)

Biographical Note

CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, was born in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in New Britain, Connecticut. He did his undergraduate work in sociology and mathematics at Dartmouth College and his graduate work in this department, receiving his degree in 1977. After leaving Harvard he did a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin and a two-year fellowship at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. In 1980 he joined the Sociology Department at Northwestern University. During his twelve years at Northwestern he was Director of the Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and for four years chair of the Department of Sociology. He was a founding member of Northwestern's Department of Statistics, and held a courtesy appointment in Economics. From 1984 to 1986 he was Director of the Economics Research Center at NORC. He has been a member of the Harvard department since 1992, and, since 2002, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS). He is currently doing research on several topics: The Ten Point Coalition, a group of black ministers who are working with the Boston police to reduce youth violence; statistical models for causal analysis; the effects of education on mental ability; causes of the racial difference in performance in elite colleges and universities; changes in the racial differential in imprisonment rates over the past sixty years.

Carriculum Vita

METHODS

"A Mechanism-Based Approach to the Identification of Age-Period-Cohort Models" with David J. Harding. Sociological Methods & Research, 2008.

Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research with Stephen L. Morgan. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

"Causal Inference in Sociological Studies," with Michael Sobel in Handbook of Data Analysis, Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman, eds., Sage Publications, 2004.

"Sample Selection Bias Models," with Vincent Kang Fu and Robert Mare in Handbook of Data Analysis, Melissa Hardy and Alan Bryman (eds.), Sage Publications, 2004.

"Latent Class Models for Contingency Tables With Missing Data," with Robert D. Mare and John Robert Warren in Applied Latent Class Analysis, Jacques A. Hagenaars and Allan L. McCutcheon, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"Modeling Social Interdependence: Is It in the Structure or in Our Hearts?" with Lin Tao, in Sociological Methodology Michael E. Sobel and Mark P. Becker, eds., 2001.

"Commentary: Estimating Causal Effects," with Felix Elwert in International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001.

"Sample Selection Bias," with Robert D. Mare, in Encyclopedia of Sociology (volume 4), Edgar F. Borgatta & Rhonda J. Montgomery (eds.), Macmillan Reference, 2000.

"Sampling Weights and Regression in Analysis" with Larry Radbill. Sociological Methods & Research, 1999.

"The Estimation of Causal Effects From Observational Data" with Stephen L. Morgan. Annual Review of Sociology, 1999.

"Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis," with Larry Radbill, Sociological Methods & Research, 1994.

"A Logit Model with Interactions for Predicting Major Gift Donors," with Wesley E. Lindahl, Research in Higher Education, 1994.

"Models for Sample Selection Bias," with Robert D. Mare, Annual Review of Sociology, 1992.

"Predictive Models for Annual Fundraising and Major Gift Fundraising," with Wesley E. Lindahl, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1992.

"Loglinear Models for Reciprocal and Other Simultaneous Effects," with Robert D. Mare, Sociological Methodology, Peter V. Marsden (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1991.

"Loglinear Models with Missing Data: A Latent Class Approach," with Robert Mare in Sociological Methodology, Clifford C. Clogg (ed.), Basil Blackwell, 1991.

"Endogenous Switching Regression Models for the Causes and Effects of Discrete Variables, with Robert D. Mare, Common Problems in Quantitative Social Research, J. Scott Long ed., Sage Press, 1988.

"Heterogeneity, and Interdependence: A Test Using Survival Models," Sociological Methodology, Nancy B. Tuma (ed.), Jossey-Bass, 1986.

"Regression Models with Ordinal Variables," with Robert D. Mare in American Sociological Review, 1984.

"Roles and Positions: A Critique and Extension of the Blockmodeling Approach," with Michael Mandel, Sociological Methodology, Samuel Leinhardt (ed.), Jossey-Bass, 1984.

"Structural Equations and Path Analysis for Discrete Data," with Robert D. Mare, American Journal of Sociology, 1983.

"The Welfare Approach to Measuring Inequality," with Joseph Schwartz, Sociological Methodology , Karl Schuessler ed., Jossey-Bass, 1980.

"The Desirability of Using the Index of Dissimilarity or any Adjustment of It for Measuring Segregation: Reply to Falk, Cortese, and Cohen," Social Forces, 1978.

"A Revaluation of Indexes of Residential Segregation," Social Forces, 1977.

"A Distance Model for Sociometric Structure," Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1977.

TEN POINT COALITION & COMMUNITY POLICING

"Losing Faith? Police, Black Churches, and the Resurgence of Youth Violence in Boston" with Anthony Braga and David Hureau. Forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Review.

Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Perspective, Edited with Anthony Braga, Jeffrey Fagan, Tracey Meares, Robert Sampson and Tom R. Tyler, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.

"Partnership, Accountability, and Innovation: Clarifying Boston's Experience with Pulling Levers" with Anthony Braga, in Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives, David Weisburd and Anthony Braga, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2006.

"Faith, Practice, and Teens: Evaluating Faith-Based Programs" with Amy Reynolds in Taking Faith Seriously, Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins, eds., Harvard University Press, 2005.

"The End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990's," in Long March Ahead: The Public Influences of African American Churches, Vol. II, R. Drew Smith (ed.). Duke University Press, 2004.

"Reducing Youth Violence in Boston: Lessons from the 1990's," in Must We Fight?, William Ury, ed., Jossey Bass, 2002.

"Preface", in The Poor are the Church: An Interview with Father Joseph Wresinski, by Gilles Anouil, Twenty-Third Publications, 2002.

"An Umbrella of Legitimacy: Boston's Police Department-Ten Point Coalition Collaboration" with Jenny Berrien, in Gary Katzman (ed.), Securing Our Children's Future, Brookings Institute Press, 2002.

"End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990's", 2002.

"Maintaining Legitimacy: Church-Based Criticism as a Force for Change," in Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?, E.J. Dionne and Ming Hsu Chen, eds., Brookings Institution, 2001.

"Should We Have Faith in the Churches? The Ten Point Coalition's Effect on Boston's Youth Violence" with Jenny Berrien in Bernard Harcourt (ed.), Guns, Crime and Punishment in America, New York University Press, 2000.

"Religion and the Boston Miracle: The Effect of Black Ministry on Youth Violence" with Jenny Berrien and Omar McRoberts in Bane, Coffin, Thiemann (eds.), Who Will Provide?, Westview Press, 2000.

"Lessons Learned from Boston's Police Community Collaboration" with Jenny Berrien, Federal Probation, 1999.

Boston Cops and Black Churches with Jenny Berrien, The Public Interest, 1999.

"Boston's Police Solution," with Orlando Patterson, New York Times, 1999. (See OP ED section.)

YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

POLICY ANALYSIS

"Policy Analysis as Puzzle-Solving", Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Michael Moran, Robert E. Goodin, Martin Rein, eds., Oxford Univeristy Press, 2006.

"The Dangers of Strong Causal Reasoning: Root Causes, Social Science, and Poverty Policy" with Martin Rein in Experiencing Poverty, Bradshaw and Sainsbury, eds., 2000.

MENTAL ABILITY & EDUCATION:THE BELL CURVE

"Black Students' Graduation from Elite Colleges: Institutional Characteristics and Between-Institution Differences." with Mario Small, Social Science Research, 2006.

"Mental Ability: Uni- or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects," with David Epstein, in Mobility and Inequality Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Stanford University Press, 2006.

"A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve: Intelligence, Family Background, and Schooling," with Sanders D. Korenman, in Meritocracy and Society, Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steve Durlauf, eds., Princeton University Press, 2000.

"Economic Success and the Evolution of Schooling and Mental Ability," with Sanders D. Korenman, in Earning and Learning: How School Matters, Susan E. Mayer and Paul E. Petersen, eds., The Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

"Does Staying in School Make You Smarter?" with Sanders Korenman in Intelligence, Genes and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve, Devlin et al., eds., Springer-Verlag, 1997.

"Policy Entrepreneurs and the Academic Establishment: The Bell Curve Controversy," with Martin Rein, in Intelligence, Political Inequality and Public Policy, Elliot White ed., Praeger, 1997.

SOCIAL NETWORKS

"Social Interactions, Groups and Scheduling Constraints," Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, Oxford University Press.

"The Weakness of Strong Organizations," in Jewish Networking: Linking People, Institutions, Community, Hayim Herring and Barry Schrage, eds., The Susan & David Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies, 2001.

Organizations and Institutions, Supplement to the American Journal of Sociology, edited with Sherwin Rosen, University of Chicago Press, 1988.

"Sociological and Economic Approaches to the Analysis of Social Structure," with Sherwin Rosen in Organizations and Institutions, Christopher Winship and Sherwin Rosen, eds., 1988.

"Thoughts about Roles and Relations: An Old Document Revisited," Social Networks, 1988.

OTHER

OP EDS

SUGGESTED LINKS

Counterfactual Analysis Website

Causal Inferences in the Social Sciences

Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS)

Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS)

Harvard Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations

The Ten Point Coalition

Sociological Methods and Research (SMR)

National Opinion Research Center (NORC)

07/21/2008

Courses Offered This Academic Year

A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years

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