{{short description|American sociologist}} {{Multiple issues| {{Primary sources|date=July 2024}} {{Notability|1=Academics|date=July 2024}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Jacqueline Rivers | birth_place = Jamaica | spouse = Eugene F. Rivers, III | education = Harvard University (PhD)<br>Harvard Radcliffe College (BA, MA) | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = On the Nature of Cultural Capital: The Reinforcing Action of Non-Elite Forms and Racial Differences in Student Achievement in the Middle Class | thesis_url = https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/13070039 | thesis_year = 2014 | discipline = Sociology }} '''Jacqueline Olga Cooke-Rivers''' is an American sociologist and a Senior Fellow at The King's College in New York City.
== Career == She has taught as a lecturer in sociology at Harvard University.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Rivers, Jacqueline C. |url=https://www.baylorisr.org/scholars/r/jacqueline-c-rivers/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion |publisher=Baylor University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atkinson |first=Austin |date= 26 February 2019|title=Thursday General Session: Why Religious Freedom Matters to Me – Dr. Jacqueline Rivers and Rev. Dr. Eugene Rivers |url=https://www.iclrs.org/blurb/thursday-general-session-why-religious-freedom-matters-to-me-dr-jacqueline-rivers-and-rev-dr-eugene-rivers/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=International Center for Law and Religion Studies}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2020-06-29 |title=Jacqueline C. Rivers |url=https://www.plough.com/en/authors/qr/jacqueline-c-rivers |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=Plough |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite web |date=2021-01-15 |title=Jacqueline Rivers |url=https://www.tkc.edu/people/jacqueline-rivers/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=The King's College}}</ref> She is the Director of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies and a former member of the Commission on Unalienable Rights.
Rivers was born in Jamaica.<ref name="Encounter" /> She attended Harvard Radcliffe College, from which she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in psychology. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 2014.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Cooke Rivers {{!}} Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality, and Social Policy |url=https://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/people/jacqueline-cooke-rivers |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=inequality.hks.harvard.edu |language=en}}</ref>
She is married to Eugene F. Rivers, III and lives in Dorchester, Boston.<ref name="Encounter">{{cite web |title=Jacqueline Rivers |url=https://www.newyorkencounter.org/jacqueline-rivers |access-date=2024-07-25 |website=New York Encounter}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web |title=Jacqueline Rivers |url=https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/jacqueline-cooke-rivers|website=Harvard University |language=en}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivers, Jacqueline}} Category:Living people Category:American women sociologists Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Radcliffe College alumni Category:King's College (New York City) faculty {{Authority control}}{{US-sociologist-stub}}