In 2019, Hochschild was on the ad hoc committee involved in denying tenure to
Lorgia García Peña, an Afro-Latina professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. According to a
New Yorker article, Hochschild had characterized Peña's work as "not research, but activism."[4]
In February 2022, Hochschild was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to The Harvard Crimson defending professor
John Comaroff after he was placed on unpaid leave for violating the university's sexual and professional conduct policies.[5] After Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's sexual harassment, Hochschild and other professors said they wished to retract their signatures.[6]
In January 2024, after facing backlash from Harvard Extension School (HES) affiliates for remarks she made on X which were perceived as denigrating students at the school, Hochschild apologized. In a series of posts on X, Hochschild — a Government and African and African American Studies professor who teaches at Harvard and HES — suggested that conservative activist Christopher F. Rufo, who emerged as a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay, had misrepresented his master’s degree from the Extension School. Hochschild wrote on
X that HES students were "great" but "not what we typically normally think of as Harvard graduate students." The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) published that it was "deeply concerned and disappointed" by Hochschild's remarks. HESA stated that although Hochschild attempted to backtrack on her statements, the initial message conveyed a different sentiment, one that undermines the value and reputation of Harvard Extension School, and further that generalizations that denigrate HES students do more than unjustly diminish individual achievements; they erode the foundational values of diversity, respect, and academic rigor that are essential to the fabric of Harvard University, and all of its degree-granting schools.[7][8]
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America with Vesla Weaver and Traci Burch (Princeton University Press, 2012)[19][20][21][22]
ed. Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation with Jacqueline Chattopadhyay,
Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa (Oxford University Press, 2013)[23]
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