Remembering Devah Pager

November 9, 2018

The Russell Sage Foundation is saddened to report the passing of one of its grantees, Devah Pager (Harvard University) on November 2, 2018. Pager was the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a professor of sociology at Harvard.  She was also director of the Kennedy School’s Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy. She was known for her seminal work on the effects of racial discrimination in the labor market and in the criminal justice system. She was the author of the book Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (2007), as well as dozens of journal articles and reports. Pager earned her Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and spent the 2002-2003 academic year as a Fulbright fellow in Paris, France.

Pager was the recipient of several grants from RSF’s Future of Work and Social Inequality programs focused on documenting the social and economic effects of racial discrimination in the workplace. She was also a contributor to three RSF books: Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America; The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist; and Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Postracist Era.

Read Pager’s New York Times obituary here.

Read Pager’s Harvard University obituary here.

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