Chris Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Harvard Kennedy School’s senior faculty member.  His research spans a wide variety of fields from the development of statistical models for assessing causality, the application of the philosophical field of pragmatism to sociology, ethnographic work-study partnerships in Boston to deal with gang violence between the police and a group of black inner city ministers known as the Ten Point Coalition, to the study of effects of education on mental and test-taking ability. He is co-director of the Boston Area Research Initiative, an inter-university effort to provide high-quality research to inform local policy decision-making. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard in 1977. Prior to coming back to Harvard in 1994, he was a professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University. He is an avid tennis player.