Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

Mark Baldassare

Public Policy Institute of California

Visiting Researcher

Mark Baldassare is president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, where he holds the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Public Policy. He is a leading expert on public opinion and survey methodology, and has directed the PPIC Statewide Survey since 1998. Before joining PPIC, he was a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of California, Irvine, where he held the Johnson Chair in Civic Governance.

Bruce Bradbury

University of New South Wales

Visiting Scholar

2013 to 2014

Bradbury along with Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook will build upon a current RSF-funded comparative project on educational inequality. This working group will write a book on child development and public policies in four countries. They will analyze differences in school achievement among children of different socioeconomic status in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Ajay Chaudry

Visiting Researcher

Chaudry worked on a book analyzing policies for providing early childhood services to children and families. He extended the research from his 2004 RSF book Putting Children First, exploring the challenges faced by low-income single mothers while their children were growing up.

Philip J. Cook

Duke University

Visiting Scholar

2014 to 2015

Cook will complete a series of articles based on research in four cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston) on the sources of guns to gang members. He hypothesizes that a better understanding of the social networks and other underground sources of guns will inform strategic interventions to disrupt supply and reduce gun violence.

Cybelle Fox

University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Scholar

2013 to 2014

Fox will write a book on the causes and consequences of the rise of restrictions on immigrants’ access to social welfare. She will compare three seminal moments of federal policymaking when the issue of non-citizens’ access to social assistance came to the fore: FDR’s New Deal, Nixon’s legal status restrictions, and Clinton’s welfare reforms.

James. S. House

University of Michigan

Visiting Scholar

2010 to 2011

House will complete a book suggesting that the resolution to the nation’s health care “crisis” is to institute policies designed to improve overall population health rather than policies that control the supply and cost of health care. As part of this analysis, he will examine social disparities in health over the adult life course, especially by socioeconomic status, and describe the limits of current and past efforts to reform health care.

Aurora P. Jackson

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

1997 to 1998

Aurora P. Jackson, assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, studied the experiences of black single mothers working at low-income jobs, with a view toward defining the specific aspects of work and family that most affect their well-being and that of their children.

Helen Marrow

Tufts University

Visiting Researcher

Helen Marrow is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. She will collaborate with incoming visiting scholars Dina Okamoto (Indiana University) and Linda Tropp (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and RSF trustee Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania) on a book examining immigrant-native relations.

Daniel S. Nagin

Carnegie Mellon University

Visiting Researcher

Nagin is Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. At RSF he studied how the experience of imprisonment affected rates of recidivism among offenders, using new methods to analyze merged data from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania State Police.

Daniel S. Nagin

Carnegie Mellon University

Visiting Scholar

2011 to 2012

Nagin will write a book in collaboration with Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin, that describes strategies for reforming the criminal justice system in ways that reduce incarceration rates and crime simultaneously. They argue that both imprisonment and crime can be reduced by implementing policies that reallocate resources from incarceration to policing, parole, and probation systems.

Melvin L. Oliver

University of California, Santa Barbara

Visiting Scholar

1995 to 1996

Melvin L. Oliver, professor of policy studies at the School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles spent a brief period at the Foundation analyzing data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality prior to taking up a new post at the Ford Foundation. His primary interest is to understand the reasons for the sharp increases in both well-to-do blacks and those living in poverty.