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Ariel White
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
White will study why and how unelected government workers who interact with the public at the street level—including police officers, public benefits caseworkers, and teachers—engage in racial and ethnic discrimination. Using administrative data and field and survey experiments, she will investigate the effects of this street-level discrimination on disadvantaged groups and study the extent to which public pressure, such as protests, citizen monitoring, and media campaigns, can reduce discriminatory behavior by government workers.
Rick K. Wilson
Rice University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Rick K. Wilson, professor of political science at Rice University, will write a book that examines trust, ethnicity, and transitional political and economic systems. Transformations from authoritarian rule over the past 25 years have highlighted the critical role trust plays in shaping both democracy and markets. For his project, Wilson collected data from two regions in the Russian Federation that have waged campaigns for sovereignty and indigenous rights.
Cara Wong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Wong will study how individuals perceive and react to their environments, using a new map‐drawing measure of people’s “local communities.” Using multiple survey datasets, she will investigate how individuals’ perceptions of the racial and ethnic characteristics of their locales affect their intergroup attitudes, civic engagement, and their preferences for policies that address immigration and social inequities.
Albert H. Yoon
University of Toronto
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Albert H. Yoon, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, will write a series of articles illuminating the relationship between legal representation and social inequality in the United States and Canada. Yoon hypothesizes that vast disparities in the quality of legal representation impose not only private costs on individual litigants, but also considerable costs on society as a whole, exacerbating and even creating social inequality along a number of dimensions.
Aristide Zolberg
The New School
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Aristide Zolberg, professor of political science and director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the New School for Social Research, will contribute to long-running debates on multiculturalism and the cultural incorporation of immigrants by focusing on the rise of Spanish as an increasingly "recognized" second language in the United States.