Theda Skocpol Wins the Khaldun Award

Faculty Associate Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2024 Khaldun Award. The award, given by the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, is meant to recognize a “lifetime of outstanding contributions to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology.” Skocpol’s work, notes the committee, covers an unusually broad spectrum of topics including both comparative politics and American politics. She is widely cited and has won many awards over the course of her long and illustrious career.