About
Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. She was Chair of Harvard’s Government Department from 2016 to 2019, and President of the American Political Science Association in 2016-2017. She was Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in fall 2023.
Hochschild’s recent books include Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Society (Oxford U. Press, 2021); Do Facts Matter: Information and Misinformation in American Politics (U. of Oklahoma Press, 2015, co-authored); and Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (Princeton U. Press, 2012, co-authored). Current research addresses race/class interactions in four American public policy arenas, COVID conspiracies and misperceptions, and the politics and policies addressing use of genomic science in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.
January 2024.
Research Interests
1. Relative importance of race/class interactions in explaining public policy making and attendant politics, with comparisons across four policies in four U.S. cities
2. Politics and policy-making regarding societal use of genomic science, with comparisons among U.S., Great Britain, and Germany
3. Mistrust of science in U.S., with focus on claims to "autonomy" for individuals, groups, or institutions expressed by both the political left and political right, depending on issue at hand