Jacqueline Rivers
American sociologist
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Jacqueline Olga Cooke-Rivers is an American sociologist and a Senior Fellow at The King's College in New York City.
Born
Jamaica
SpouseEugene F. Rivers, III
EducationHarvard University (PhD)
Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA)
Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA)
Jacqueline Rivers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jamaica |
| Spouse | Eugene F. Rivers, III |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA) |
| Thesis | On the Nature of Cultural Capital: The Reinforcing Action of Non-Elite Forms and Racial Differences in Student Achievement in the Middle Class (2014) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
Career
She has taught as a lecturer in sociology at Harvard University.[1][2][3][4] She is the Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies and a former member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
Rivers was born in Jamaica.[5] She attended Harvard Radcliffe College, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in psychology. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 2014.[1][4][6]
She is married to Eugene F. Rivers, III and lives in Dorchester, Boston.[5]
