Anthony Abraham Jack

Anthony Jack is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, an Assistant Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Shutzer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. His research investigates undergraduates’ sense of belonging in college and how university policies affect daily life. His research uncovers the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the Doubly Disadvantaged­—those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools—and Privileged Poor­—those who do so from boarding, day, and preparatory high schools. His work appears in the Du Bois Review, Sociological Forum, and the Sociology of Education and has received awards from the American Sociological Association, Eastern Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan named him a 2016 Emerging Diversity Scholar. The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, American RadioWorks, National Review, and MPR have featured his writing and research on lower-income college students as well as biographical profiles of his experiences of being a first-generation college student. In addition to his scholarly work, he earned the Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising and received the 2016 Tribute to Black Men Faculty Award Recipient from the Association of Black Harvard Women. Learn more at scholar.harvard.edu/anthonyjack.