Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard (SROH)

Are you considering a PhD? Live at Harvard for the summer, work alongside Harvard faculty and graduate students, and enjoy firsthand access to the amazing resources of this university. Our summer program will connect you with first-class researchers working in the world’s most advanced labs and facilities across all fields in the life and physical sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

Summer Research Opportunities at Harvard is a summer program offered for currently enrolled undergraduates from across the country who are considering pursuing a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, or life/physical sciences; who have already had at least one summer (or equivalent term-time) of research experience; and who have taken at least one upper-level course in their field of study. US citizenship or permanent residency is required. The program structure can be viewed here.

In addition to the program-specific activities described below, participants will have the opportunity to interact with undergraduates from other summer programs, as well as with administrators, graduate students, and faculty from across the University. SROH is a partnership between the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Senior Vice Provost Office for Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D), and the Leadership Alliance Consortium.

SROH Application Process

Application for the SROH Program is through the Leadership Alliance Summer Research-Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) online application. Application submission and other details can be found at www.theleadershipalliance.org.

Registration begins November 1, 2012 and the deadline for submission of application is February 1, 2013.

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2013 Program Dates

June 10–August 17

Program Activities

SROH includes the following activities:

• Placement in faculty research groups in Cambridge spanning fields in the life and physical sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Students in the life sciences should visit this website to find out more about the possible research opportunities with faculty in the Molecules Cells and Organisms Training Program.
• Weekly faculty lectures from departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) divisions, held jointly with students enrolled in the Harvard summer research programs.
• Weekly group meeting discussions of student research projects.
• Participation in the Leadership Alliance National Symposium (dates to be determined). Visiting student status includes housing with residential proctor; dining in Annenberg; library privileges; athletics privileges; access to summer activities such as field trips, music, etc.

Room, Board, and Stipends

Students in the program will live in Harvard-affiliated housing. The program will provide all research and course-related expenses, room and board, travel to and from the program, and a stipend of $3,000. Students are required to participate for the full period of the program.

Possible Faculty Mentors for Students Interested in Social Sciences

Claudine Gay

Professor of Government and African and African-American Studies
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/claudine-gay

Dr. Gay is a Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, where she also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Government.  She received her PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 1998.  Before returning to Harvard in 2006, she was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford from 2000-2006 and a Visiting Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California from 1999-2000.  She is currently studying the political participation consequences of assisted housing mobility programs for immigrants and the poor.  Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of American political behavior, public opinion, and race and ethnic politics.  Past classes taught at Harvard include Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in the United States, Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Topics in American Political Behavior, and Democratic Citizenship. 

Jennifer Hochschild

Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/jennifer-hochschild

Dr. Hochschild is a Professor of Government, African and African American Studies, and Harvard College professor.  She received her PhD from Yale in 1979.  Prior to coming to Harvard in 2001, Dr. Hochschild taught at Duke, Columbia, and Princeton.  She has authored and co-authored countless books, book chapters, and journal articles, as well as holding countless Awards and Fellowships for her contribution to Political Science, Government, and African and African American Studies.  Her current research and teaching interests include the politics and ideology of genomic science, immigrant political incorporation, and citizen’s use of factual information in political decision making.  Past courses taught at Harvard College include Is the American Racial Order Being Transformed?, American Political Ideologies, Power in American Society, School Desegregation Policy, and Multiculturalism in Education.  

Kathryn Edin

Professor of Public Policy and Management, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/kathryn-edin

Dr. Edin is a Professor of Public Policy management at the Harvard Kennedy School.  She received her PhD from Northwestern University in Sociology in 1991.  Before accepting a professorship at Harvard Kennedy School in 2007, Dr. Edin taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern, and University of Pennsylvania.  Currently, her research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, housing, child support, and non-marital childbearing.  She is currently working on a study of how low-wage earners make ends meet and how these decisions affect housing, neighborhood, and educational outcomes.  Past courses taught at the Kennedy School include Poverty and Social Policy, a Proseminar on Inequality and Social Policy, and Research Design and Research Methods for Fieldwork.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Professor of Law, History, Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=795

Dr. Brown-Nagin is a Professor of Law and a Professor of History at Harvard.  She received her J.D. from Yale in 1997 and her PhD from Duke University in 2002.  Prior to coming to GSAS in 2012, she taught law and history at the University of Virginia and Washington University.  She is widely regarded as an expert in the fields of constitutional law, legal history, and education law.  Her research interests include constitutional law and equity, constitutional and social history, comparative constitutionalism, access to education, law and social change, and judging.     

Contact Information

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