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Jennifer L. Hochschild

Jennifer L. Hochschild

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Political Science

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11208
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2000 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Jennifer L. Hochschild is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, political science and international relations, education, history and philosophy of science, and genetics.

The scholar's work encompasses several main topics, including:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jennifer L. Hochschild include:

  • My Group or Myself? How Black, Latino, and White Americans Choose a Neighborhood, Job, and Candidate when Personal and Group Interest Diverge (2021), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • Loyalists and Switchers: Characterizing Voters' Responses to Donald Trump's Campaign and Presidency (2020), published in Political Science Quarterly
  • P174: Comprehensive newborn hearing screening in generation genome through SEQaBOO (SEQuencing a Baby for an Optimal Outcome)* (2023), published in Genetics in Medicine Open
  • LEFT, RIGHT, AND MERITOCRACY Comment on M. Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit (2021), published in American Journal of Law and Equality
  • The Inheritance of Loss: Symposium on Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, University of Chicago Press, 2018 (2020), published in Political Theory

The frequent venues for publishing their research include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Political Science Quarterly
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Genetics in Medicine Open
  • American Journal of Law and Equality

Jennifer L. Hochschild has collaborated with several co-authors several times, notably:

  • Spencer Piston
  • Vesla M. Weaver
  • Meredith Dost
  • Ryan Enos
  • Kevin T. Booth

Their book publications include titles released by the Russell Sage Foundation and Rutgers University Press. Two publications by the Russell Sage Foundation, both titled Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, are dated 2024. Additionally, Jennifer L. Hochschild contributed to The Future of American Democratic Politics, published by Rutgers University Press in 2020.

Among the awards received, Jennifer L. Hochschild was recognized with the Heinz I. Eulau Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2006. They have also been named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Facing Up to the American Dream

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • The American dream and the public schools

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Nathan B. Scovronick

  • The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Vesla Weaver

  • Social Class in Public Schools

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican Race

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Brenna Marea Powell

  • Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Katherine Levine Einstein

  • Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Vesla M. Weaver;Traci R. Burch

  • Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;John H. Mollenkopf

  • Conducting Intensive Interviews and Elite Interviews

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Americans' Belief in Linked Fate: Does the Measure Capture the Concept?

    Jennifer L. Hochschild;Ariel White

  • Where You Stand Depends on What You See: Connections Among Values, Perceptions of Fact, and Political Prescriptions

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Outsiders no more? : models of immigrant political incorporation

    Jennifer Hochschild;Jacqueline Chattopadhyay;Michael Jones-Correa

  • Immigrant political incorporation: comparing success in the United States and Western Europe

    John Mollenkopf;Jennifer Hochschild

  • Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation.

    Kay Lehman Schlozman;Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Trends: Governance and Reform of Public Education in the United States

    Jennifer Hochschild;Bridget Scott

  • Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History by Rogers Smith

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice

    Ronald L. Cohen;Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • DEMOCRACY REMIXED: BLACK YOUTH AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POLITICS

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post‐Racial America by Devon W. Carbado and Mitu Gulati. New York, Oxford University Press, 2013. 198 pp. $29.95.

    Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation.

    Floyd Morgan Hammack;Jennifer L. Hochschild

  • The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation

    Henry M. Levin;Jennifer L. Hochschild

Frequent Co-Authors

Kay Lehman Schlozman
Kay Lehman Schlozman Boston College
Richard Delgado
Richard Delgado Seattle University
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Edward G. Carmines
Edward G. Carmines Indiana University
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus Williams College
Paul M. Sniderman
Paul M. Sniderman Stanford University
Henry M. Levin
Henry M. Levin Columbia University
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Sara McLanahan
Sara McLanahan Princeton University
William A. Galston
William A. Galston Brookings Institution

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