William Skocpol

He grew up in Crete, Nebraska from 1948 to 1957 and Richardson, Texas from 1957 to 1964. He graduated with a BA in physics from Michigan State University in 1968, with an MA in physics from Harvard University in 1971 and a PhD from Harvard in 1974.^[1]

He worked as junior faculty at Harvard University from 1969 to 1980, at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey from 1980 to 1987, and at Boston University from 1987 to 2014.^[1]

He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987.^[2]

He married the sociologist Theda Barron in 1967; they have a son, Michael, born in 1988.^[1]