RSF Authors and Former Visiting Scholars Receive Guggenheim, AAAS Fellowships
RSF author and former visiting scholar Nancy Foner (CUNY Graduate Center) and former RSF visiting scholars Natasha Warikoo (Harvard University) and Robert Aronowitz (University of Pennsylvania) have been awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed annually in a number of scholarly disciplines. Aronowitz has been awarded a fellowship in the history of science, technology, and economics; Foner has been awarded a fellowship in sociology; and Warikoo has been awarded a fellowship in education.
Aronowitz was a visiting scholar during 2011-2012 and worked on a social history of the ways doctors, patients, and others have decided the effectiveness of medical interventions, such as drugs or surgery. Nancy Foner is co-editor of the RSF books Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity (2015), Not Just Black and White (2005), and Immigration Research for a New Century (2000). She is also the recipient of multiple awards from RSF, and was a visiting scholar in 1994-1995. Warikoo was a visiting scholar during 2013-2014 and studied student perspectives on race and admissions policies at elite universities in the U.S. and the U.K.
Former RSF visiting scholar Richard Alba (CUNY Graduate Center) has been selected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. AAAS Fellows are selected annually and are leaders in academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs. During his time at RSF in 1998-1999 and again in 2014-2015, Alba researched the demographic transformation of working-age Americans and its impact on the ethnic and racial composition of the upper tiers of the workforce.