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Robert J. Sampson

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
rsampson@wjh.harvard.edu

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  • Robert J. Sampson is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and founding director of the Boston Area Research Initiative.  He has also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois.  

    Sampson is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He served as President of the American Society of Criminology and received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Sampson was also elected as Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

    Professor Sampson's research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, "ecometrics," and the social structure of the city.  He is the author of three award-winning books and numerous articles. His last book, published by the University of Chicago Press, is Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. Great American City is based on the culmination of over a decade of research from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and extensions (PHDCN+), for which Sampson served as Scientific Director. For an intellectual biography see the National Academy of Sciences (2008).

  • Neighborhoods Project
  • Crime and the Life Course
  • The Social Science of Cities
  • Environmental Inequality
  • Collective Civic Engagement

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The Birth Lottery of History

PHDCN+

Annual Review of Criminology: Volume 6, 2023  (open access)

Foreword: "The City for the 21st Century.”  In reissue of the classic 1925 edition of The City

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          Great American City
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