Peter V. Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology and Harvard College Professor, received his undergraduate degree (Sociology and History) at Dartmouth College (1973) and his graduate degrees (Sociology, MA [1975] and Ph.D. [1979]) at the University of Chicago. He came to Harvard in 1987 after teaching for ten years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also held administrative assignments as Associate Chair and Special Assistant to the Dean. At Harvard, he served as Chair of the Sociology Department between 1992 and 1998 and in 2002-03.