Citizenship Lecture Series

Theda Skocpol

"Voice and Inequality: The Transformation of American Civic Democracy"

Monday, Sept. 25, 2006
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

See a streaming video of this lecture. This streaming video requires RealPlayer. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it free.

Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She has also served as Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard from 1999 to 2006.

The author of nine books, nine edited collections, and more than seven dozen articles, Skocpol is one of the most cited and widely influential scholars in the modern social sciences. Her work has contributed to the study of comparative politics, American politics, comparative and historical sociology, U.S. history, and the study of public policy.

Her first book, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge, 1979), won the 1979 C. Wright Mills Award and the 1980 American Sociological Association Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. Her Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Harvard, 1992), won five scholarly awards.

In 1996, Skocpol served as President of the Social Science History Association, an interdisciplinary professional group; and from 2001-03 she served as President-Elect and then President of the American Political Science Association.

Skocpol received a B.A. in 1969 from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in 1975 from Harvard University.

Theda Skocpol
Professor of Government and Sociology
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University