#  Orlando Patterson 

Faculty Associate.

John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 location\_on William James Hall 520, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [(617) 495-3707](<tel:(617) 495-3707>) 

 email <opatters@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Personal Website](http://scholar.harvard.edu/patterson/home) 

 

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**Research interests:** Sociology of slavery and freedom; ethnic relations; sociology of culture; and the sociology of political and economic development.



 

 

 





 

 

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