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William Julius Wilson
Harvard University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He served on the board of the Russell Sage Foundation from 1988–1998, and as chair from 1993–1996. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education and the Institute of Medicine. He has served as president of the American Sociological Association, and was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow.
Julia C. Wrigley
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Julia C. Wrigley, professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will write a book that analyzes episodes of harm to children in non-parental child care, and the responses of parents, caregivers, and investigative authorities to these breaches of trust. Trust has rarely been analyzed in a childcare context, yet non-parental care requires profound trust in others to operate. Unlike in Europe, few mechanisms are in place in the United States to help parents assess providers.
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
University of Minnesota
Visiting Scholar
2025 to 2026
Wrigley-Field will analyze how demography enables and constrains cultural and political change through population ties to historical events and experiences. For example, she will investigate the high death rates of older Black Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced the number of Black Americans who have a living relative who experienced Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement and how this may impact political engagement. Her project will draw on historical vital statistics, data from the IPUMS Multigenerational Linkage Project, and demographic models.
Kathryne Young
George Washington University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Young will investigate common civil justice problems such as landlord-tenant disputes and consumer debt from the perspective of everyday people. Better understanding their “legal consciousness”—attitudes, beliefs, and understandings about law—will facilitate design of justice solutions that meet people where they are. Her mixed-methods research will draw on survey data from over 3600 U.S. adults as well as longitudinal interviews with over 100 people going through civil justice problems.
Viviana A. Zelizer
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Zelizer will research how colleges and college students respond to everyday economic inequality on their campuses. Focusing on Princeton undergraduates, she will study the interactions among students of different socioeconomic backgrounds in order to observe how students negotiate money, campus work, and class differences. Zelizer will also investigate how the histories of student monetary transactions and labor practices at Princeton have helped shape the present-day campus economy.