Henry E. James

Toward “What Works?”: Moynihan, Wilson, and Social Policy in an Age of Diminished Expectations

Principal supervisor: Professor Gareth Davies, UCL Institute of the Americas. 
Subsidiary supervisor: Professor Jonathan Bell, UCL Institute of the Americas. 
 
My research examines crime and poverty in the lead-up to and aftermath of the Great Society in the United States. I focus on the multifaceted careers of James Q. Wilson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan to blend policy, intellectual, and political approaches.

PhD funding

• Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship

Education

• 2023: M.Phil. in American History, University of Cambridge
• 2022: B.A. in History, Georgetown University 

Awards | Grants | Scholarships 

• 2024: Commonwealth Fund, UCL History Department
• 2024: Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities (funding for doctoral research)
• 2022: Sara Norton Fund, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• 2021: Education and Social Justice Research Fellowship at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs

Publications

• 2023: "A Bronx Oasis: The Effect of College Programs in Prison and the Community of Ignacio House," Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs