Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

Amy Binder

University of California, San Diego

Visiting Scholar

2005 to 2006

Amy Binder, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, will explore the ways in which not-for-profit groups act as intermediaries to help needy individuals locate and access social services. She will focus on a transitional housing facility in Colorado and write a book on the ways the facility betters the lives of its clients by connecting them to educational resources.

Deirdre Bloome

University of Michigan

Visiting Scholar

2017 to 2018

Bloome will study the effects of rising inequality in the U.S. on intergenerational income persistence, or the extent to which children’s economic outcomes in adulthood resemble those of their parents. Using several panel data sets, she will explore the extent to which factors such as education-related wage disparities, childhood family structure, and public policies shape these intergenerational relationships and develop a model that predicts future economic mobility trends.

Lawrence D. Bobo

University of California, Los Angeles

Visiting Scholar

1995 to 1996

Lawrence D. Bobo, professor of sociology and Director, Center for Research on Race, Politics, and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed data from the Los Angeles part of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. He completed several manuscripts, some to appear in the MCSUI Los Angeles volume, that explore such issues as interethnic attitudes, residential segregation, and economic inequality among the multi-ethnic melange that makes up Los Angeles. Working Papers:

Irene Browne

Emory University

Visiting Scholar

1995 to 1996

Irene Browne, assistant professor of sociology at the Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University, co-authored a chapter on "Social Isolation and Atlanta's African-American Poor" for the Atlanta volume of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. She examined the growing joblessness and earnings gap experienced by African American and Hispanic women, convening an authors' conference for a book she is editing on this topic.

Michael Burawoy

University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Scholar

2002 to 2003

Michael Burawoy, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will write a book placing Russia's post-Communist transition to a free-market economy in the context of other market transitions in places such as China and Central Europe. Burawoy will argue that Russia's cultural aversion to capitalist development should not be regarded as an anomaly but rather incorporated as a comparative case.

Charles Camic

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Visiting Scholar

2004 to 2005

Charles Camic, Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will profile the early academic life of economist Thorstein Veblen, one of America’s most innovative social theorists, in order to understand the social processes by which novel ideas emerge and develop. He will examine the culture and intellectual orientation of the institutions where Veblen studied and taught as a young man.

Bruce Carruthers

Northwestern University

Visiting Scholar

2000 to 2001

Bruce G. Carruthers, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University, will work on a book charting the historical development of credit in the Anglo-American world, from the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century. The problem of who to trust with money has been resolved in different ways over the centuries. In the past, creditors would judge the personal character of the debtor. Today, they rely on the systematic use of financial data.

Andrew J. Cherlin

Johns Hopkins University

Visiting Researcher

Andrew J. Cherlin is the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. In an effort to examine the current state of the white and black working classes, Cherlin will write up findings from a recent study of white and black former workers at a now-shuttered Baltimore steel plant and their adult children.

Jennifer Chudy

Wellesley College

Visiting Scholar

2022 to 2023

Chudy will work on research examining racial sympathy, defined as White distress over Black suffering, and its role in American politics. She will explore whether and how the Trump presidency and recent racial unrest have impacted racial sympathy and how racial sympathy might be channeled into political action.

Angie Chung

State University of New York, Albany

Visiting Researcher

Angie Chung will write a book examining the rise of immigrant growth coalitions among ethnic entrepreneurs, political leaders, financiers, and auxiliary players who shape land use and redevelopment processes in globalizing cities. Based on fieldwork and interviews in Koreatown and Monterey Park, California, Chung will focus on how Korean and Chinese immigrant leaders have promoted their economic growth agenda in Los Angeles amidst suburbanization, political barriers, and economic recessions.

Dan Clawson

University of Massachusetts

Visiting Scholar

2011 to 2012

Clawson and Naomi R. Gerstel (University of Massachusetts) will write a book examining how workplace time—scheduled hours, flex time, overtime, and vacation—is controlled and allocated. This working group will utilize data on the hours and schedules of low-wage nursing assistants, higher-wage emergency medical technicians and nurses, and high-income doctors. They will analyze how work time is regulated from the above by the state, firms, and management; negotiated or resisted by workers; and impacted by forces outside the workplace, such as family obligations and labor markets.

Yinon Cohen

Tel Aviv University

Visiting Scholar

1996 to 1997

Yinon Cohen, senior lecturer in the department of sociology and the department of labor studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, completed several chapters of a book that will compare Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arab immigration to the United States. Palestinian Arabs have made up about one-third of Israel's immigrants to the U. S. over the past four decades, a relatively high proportion that is explained, Cohen argues, by the discrimination they encounter in Israeli life.

Stephen Cole

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Visiting Scholar

1997 to 1998

Stephen Cole, leading professor of Sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook, investigated why talented minority students so rarely pursue academic careers. Cole combed data from survey research, focus groups, and other sources to examine what factors influence and alter the career choices of high-achieving minority youths throughout their college tenure. His work examined the relationship of students with faculty role models, the effect of students' perceptions of their academic ability relative to those around them, and the continued impact of racial stereotyping.

Dalton Conley

New York University

Visiting Scholar

2013 to 2014

Conley will write a series of articles examining the impact of genetics on socioeconomic attainment. Using genetic markers in nationally representative data sets, Conley will attempt to construct genetic risk scores and use them to deepen our understanding of the relationship between genetic endowment and socioeconomic status.

Maurice Crul

University of Amsterdam

Visiting Scholar

2009 to 2010

Maurice Crul, senior researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, will work on a collaborative book that compares European and American second-generation immigrant outcomes using three studies: The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES), Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York (ISGMNY), and Immigrant and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMML

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Harvard University

Visiting Scholar

2002 to 2003

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, will work on three projects related to how the culture of medicine and the organization of health care contribute to disparities in medical treatment and health care by race, ethnicity, and class. Why do such disparities exist? How should we critically analyze current data, assess limitations, and include multiple perspectives in addressing this topic?

Paul J. DiMaggio

Princeton University

Visiting Scholar

2011 to 2012

DiMaggio will analyze how the choices of individual members within social networks may influence those of other members and whether these "network effects" impact inequality by reinforcing advantages or disadvantages. DiMaggio’s work focuses on whether the adoption of a given practice—migrating to a new city, using a new communication technology—by one’s friends, kin, or associates increases the likelihood that one will adopt the same practice.

Thomas A. DiPrete

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2008 to 2009

Thomas A. DiPrete, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will write a book that seeks to establish why the gender gap in educational performance is larger for black students than for white students. Recent U.S. statistics reveal a gender gap favoring females in high school completion, college entry, and college completion – and this gap is particularly large and growing among black students.

Nancy DiTomaso

Rutgers University

Visiting Scholar

2003 to 2004

Nancy DiTomaso, professor of organization management at Rutgers University, will write a book examining the reasons why many white Americans do not see the contradiction between the persistence of racial inequality in the U.S. and their belief in the existence of equal opportunity. With previous support from Russell Sage, DiTomaso found that white Americans disavow racism and believe that discrimination no longer holds back black Americans.

Frank Dobbin

Harvard University

Visiting Scholar

2019 to 2020

Dobbin will analyze the efficacy of university programs designed to increase diversity among faculty. He will merge data from a retrospective survey of hiring, promotion, diversity, and work-life policies at 670 universities with data on faculty demographics and professors’ career trajectories to study how different policies affect the composition of university faculty. He will evaluate which policies are most effective by race, ethnicity, gender, parental status, and discipline to develop an evidence-based rubric for increasing diversity that university administrators might implement.