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Sanford Schram teaches at Hunter College, CUNY, in the Political Science Department and the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House. He has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (1995) and Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (2011), co-authored with Joe Soss and Richard Fording, both of which won the Michael Harrington Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science. His most recent book is Becoming a Footnote: An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia (2013). His current book project is entitled The Return to Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (under review at Oxford University Press). Schram was the 2012 recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science.