Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Ph.D. Program in Social Policy is a collaboration between the government and sociology departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the social policy faculty at Harvard Kennedy School leading to a Ph.D. in government and social policy or a Ph.D. in sociology and social policy. The program is designed for students whose research interests engage questions of economic inequality, neighborhoods and spatial segregation, poverty, changing family structures, race and ethnicity, immigration, educational access and quality, political inequalities and participation, and comparative and institutional studies of social policy, particularly in the US and Western Europe.