Annual Spring Lecture: Robert Sampson “Urban Neighborhoods and American Life” | Metropolitan Policy Center, American University

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2019 MPC Annual Spring Lecture: Robert Sampson
“Urban Neighborhoods and American Life”
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm

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School of International Service Founders Room
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20016

Professor Sampson's most recent book, published by the University of Chicago Press, is Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.

The Metropolitan Policy Center is pleased to announce its fifth Annual Spring Lecture. We are excited that Robert J. Sampson of Harvard University will deliver our keynote lecture. His talk is entitled “Urban Neighborhoods and American Life."

Presently, Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, founding director of the Boston Area Research Initiative, and Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.

He served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and taught at the University of Chicago before moving to Harvard. He also taught at the University of Illinois and was a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. A reception will follow the lecture.