Deirdre Bloome

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Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Professor of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Deirdre Bloome

Deirdre Bloome is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Bloome's research takes a demographic approach toward investigating how patterns of social inequality are produced and reproduced. Her work has focused on the relationships among socioeconomic inequality, mobility, and insecurity; the historical evolution of racial inequalities in the family and economy; and statistical methods for characterizing population heterogeneity.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University. Previously, she was a faculty member at the University of Michigan. Her research has been published in outlets including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and Demography; it has been supported by funders including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation; and it has been recognized by awards including the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section.