Oct 25
Breakfast with Theda Skocpol
Students are invited to Breakfast with Convocation Speaker Theda Skocpol. She is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. An internationally recognized scholar, she has received multiple honorary degrees, and been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Skocpol’s work addresses a broad spectrum of questions about socio-political change, including health care reform, public policy, and civic engagement amid shifting inequalities in American democracy; currently, she is probing partisan polarization and Republican Party radicalization. Among Skocpol’s major, books are two multiple award-winners, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China, and Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States. Others include Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life; Health Care Reform and American Politics; and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Her most recent books are Upending American Politics: Polarizing Parties, Ideological Elites, and Citizen Activists from the Tea Party to the Anti-Trump Resistance (co-edited with Caroline Tervo) and Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party (co-authored with Lainey Newman, Columbia University Press).