Leadership Team

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative

Dan O’Brien is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and co-director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. His work focuses on the ways th…

Founding Director; Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and a member of the senior faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a faculty associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Progra…

Founding Director; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Founding Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. A former President of the American Society of Criminology, he is an elected member of the Nati…

Director of Research on Education; Charles Bigelow Professor of Education, Harvard University

Professor Hill is a developmental psychologist whose research focuses on understanding that mechanisms that impact youths’ opportunities for upward mobility and successful postsecondary transitions. Her research has focused on parental choice and par…

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ryan Qi Wang is assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, associate research director on social media of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI), and faculty affiliate of the School of…