Deirdre Bloome, AM, PhD

Deirdre R. Bloome is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, and director of the Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; and professor of sociology at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in sociology and social policy, an AM in statistics from Harvard University, and received a certificate in demography from the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. Bloome’s expertise lies in the areas of socioeconomic inequality and mobility, racial and ethnic inequalities, family demography, and quantitative methods. Her current research focuses on the relationships among socioeconomic inequality, mobility, and insecurity; the historical evolution of racial inequalities in the family and the economy; and statistical methods for characterizing population heterogeneity.