Orlando Patterson
- Title
- John Cowles Professor of Sociology
- opatters@fas.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617-495-3707
- Fax
- 617-496-5794
- Department
- Department of Sociology
- School
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Regions of Interest
- Caribbean Region
- Countries of Interest
- United States (Latinos)
- Areas of Expertise
- Sociology
- Mailing Address
- Department of Sociology William James Hall 520 33 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138
- Office Location
- William James Hall 520
- Research Interest
- Sociology of economic development; historical sociology of slavery and freedom; Caribbean culture; American racial relations and integration; race and public policy in the United States
- Web Page
- http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/patterson/
- Courses
- Caribbean Societies: Socioeconomic Change and Cultural Adaptations; Freedom, Capitalism and Development: Seminar
- Publications
- “The Western Chord: Trust and Democracy in the Culture of Freedom,”Yale Law School, Storrs Lecture Series (April 12-14, 1999);The Sociology of Slavery: Jamaica, 1655-1838;
Slavery and Social Death;
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture;
The Ordeal of Integration;
Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries