What's New at RSF

New Books

In Spin Cycle, noted political scientist and education expert Jeffrey Henig explores how controversies over the charter school movement illustrate the use and misuse of research in policy debates. Read more

New Faces in New Places, edited by distinguished sociologist Douglas Massey, explores today’s geography of immigration and documents how communities across the nation are reacting to the arrival of newcomers. Read more

In The Price of Independence, a roster of distinguished experts examine the economic and social trends that make a transition to adulthood difficult for so many young people today. Read more

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Recent Awards

The Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation recently made the following awards:

Under its Immigration program, $355, 552 was awarded to Douglas Massey (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Michael Jones-Correa (Cornell University), Gordon Hanson (University of California at San Diego) and Katherine Fennelly (University of Minnesota) for a pilot project to develop the most comprehensive study to date on immigrants in non-traditional destinations across the nation. Read more

Under its Social Inequality program, $291, 292 was granted to Barbara Wolfe (University of Wisconsin), William N. Evans (University of Notre Dame) and Teresa Seeman (University of California, Los Angeles) who will bring researchers in the social and biological sciences together for a landmark exploration of the pathways linking socioeconomic status and health. Read more

Under its Cultural Contact program, $186, 270 was awarded to Susan Fiske (Princeton University) for a novel series of laboratory and neuro-imaging studies that will address the psychological and neural bases of prejudice towards minority groups. Read more

Under its Future of Work program, $159, 902 was granted to Jeffrey Grogger (National Opinion Research Center) and Gordon Hanson (University of California at San Diego) who will seek answers to the unresolved question of whether globalization has negatively affected the wages and employment of U.S. workers. Read more

Click here for information on all of the Foundation's research programs, including program descriptions and a complete list of recent awards

Visiting Scholars

Twenty-one leading social scientists from across the nation and around the world are currently in residence at the Foundation’s headquarters in New York City. During their time at RSF, the scholars are pursuing cutting-edge research and writing projects that address some of the most critical social problems and questions facing the nation today. Some topics under investigation by this year’s class of visiting scholars include: the causes and consequences of false convictions in the American judicial system, links between race, health, and socioeconomic status, the experiences of Mexican immigrants in New York City, the role of emotion in decision-making, felon disenfranchisement laws, and cross-national trends in socioeconomic mobility.

Read the press release announcing the appointment of visiting scholars for 2007-2008