Jennifer Hochschild

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. She was Chair of Harvard’s Government Department from 2016 to 2019, and President of the American Political Science Association in 2016-2017. In addition to Genomic Politics, (co-authored) books include Do Facts Matter: Information and Misinformation in American Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), and Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (Princeton University Press, 2012). Current research addresses race/class intersectionality in four American public policy arenas, COVID conspiracies and misperceptions, and the politics and policies addressing use of genomic science in the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.