L-R: Jacob Hacker, Rucker Johnson, Mary Patillo

Three RSF authors and grantees – Jacob Hacker, Rucker Johnson, and Mary Patillo – have recently been named Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  Most of the Academy’s Fellows are university-based scholars who have changed our understanding of human behavior and the world in which we live; others are public servants who have used scholarly research in government to improve the common good. Hacker, Johnson, and Patillo along with two other 2021 electees, will be inducted as Fellows of the Academy at an event to be held this fall.

Jacob Hacker is Stanley Resor Professor of Political Science and director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He has written widely on the evolution and implications of America’s patchwork of laws, regulations, and institutional arrangements. Hacker is the recipient of several RSF grants and is co-editor (with Joe Soss and Suzanne Mettler) of the RSF book Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality.

Rucker Johnson is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the economics of education, particularly concerning the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. Johnson was an RSF visiting scholar in 2011-2012 and a member of the advisory committee for the RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition. He is the author of the recent book Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works.

Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University. Her work examines the interrelationships of race, class, ethnicity, urban space and gentrification, housing, education, the criminal justice system, politics, and urban policy. Patillo is an RSF grantee, and co-editor (with David Weiman and Bruce Western) of the RSF book Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.