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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.
Frank Dobbin
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Frank Dobbin, associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, will write a history of employer anti-discrimination practices that describes how corporate managers and lawyers continually redefined discrimination in response to the changing legal climate of the past four decades. Dobbin will study how the development of special recruitment and training programs, formal evaluation and promotion systems, grievance mechanisms, "culture audits," and diversity workshops affected the representation of women and minorities in the workforce.
Katharine Donato
Georgetown University
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Donato will analyze how race and gender affect immigrant incorporation in the U.S. Using Census data, she will investigate immigrant women’s participation in the labor force and track how marital status and education affect economic outcomes of immigrants in comparison to the native-born. She will also draw from interviews with both immigrants and natives in Nashville, Tennessee to explore how immigrants assimilate by constructing and reconstructing their identities based on the existing racial hierarchy.
Lucas Drouhot
Utrecht University
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Drouhot will write a book (with collaborators René Flores and Edward Telles) proposing a new theoretical account of immigrant integration. Drawing on a unique national survey he fielded in 2023, Drouhot contends that the two current main theories of immigrant integration are limited by conceptual and methodological shortcomings which he will address using an inductive, data-driven approach.
Waverly Duck
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Duck will explore the idea that exclusion and inequality hinder cooperation in society, affecting relationships, organizations, institutions, and societal structures. By examining the experiences of historically marginalized individuals, particularly racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ minorities, Duck will shed light on the hidden social order that remains unseen by those who are not marginalized.
Penny Edgell
University of Minnesota
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Edgell will explore the decline of religious commitment and the increase in nonreligion and spirituality since 1990. She will analyze data from the American Mosaic Project, Beyond Christian Nationalism survey, and Nonreligious Engagement and Well-being survey along with secondary sources to develop a new framework for understanding the transformed landscape of religion in the United States.
Wendy Nelson Espeland
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Wendy N. Espeland, associate professor of sociology at Northwestern University, will write a book examining the social significance of commensuration -- the invention of a common system of measurement and evaluation for things that would not be directly comparable otherwise. Prices, cost-benefit ratios, and utility rankings are three familiar forms of commensuration, making it possible for heterogeneous goods to be traded off against each other.
Peter Evans
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Peter Evans, the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will assess the opportunities for globalizing the labor movement. Drawing on official documentation from labor unions, international confederations, global institutions, and transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs), he will research the depth and seriousness of efforts undertaken by U.S. unions to expand globally and the varying responses to these efforts by third world labor movements. Evans will examine the potential effects of a global labor movement on U.S.
Jacob Faber
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2020 to 2021
Faber will complete several articles about the expansion of the alternative financial services (AFS) industry over the past two decades. The dramatic growth of payday lenders, check cashers, pawnshops, and other AFS is concerning since such services tend to be more expensive than traditional banking services. He will use a combination of administrative, business, sociodemographic, and survey data to examine the individual, neighborhood, and metropolitan, drivers of AFS proliferation.
Cynthia Feliciano
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Feliciano and Rubén Rumbaut will work on a book that explores the socioeconomic, cultural, and political incorporation of the immigrant second generation, and how they completed their adult transitions during and after the Great Recession.
Frank F. Furstenberg
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will work on a book examining how U.S. policies relating to welfare, sex education, work, and marriage affect teenage childbearing rates, as well as what happens to teenagers who do get pregnant. He will argue in favor of adopting a public-health approach to managing teenage sexual initiation and moving away from an "abstinence only" policy.
Claude S. Fischer
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Claude S. Fischer, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will work on a non-technical book summarizing what is known about whether and how the personal networks of Americans changed historically, particularly in the last generation or so. Fischer plans to analyze the networks’ sizes, compositions, structures, and intensities.
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.
Brittany Fox-Williams
Lehman College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Fox-Williams will work on a book examining trust as an overlooked dimension of racial inequality in education. Her mixed-methods study draws on longitudinal data from the New York City Department of Education and 90 interviews conducted in NYC public high schools to investigate the racial dynamics of trust in schools and to identify strategies for fostering trusting school climates for racially minoritized youth.
Joan H. Fujimura
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Fujimura will write a book exploring the role of race in recent biomedical genetics studies. She will analyze laboratory and institutional data from various sites to understand how genomics researchers are struggling to develop concepts of genetic history and ancestry that define medically important population differences without becoming entangled in socially constructed racial categories.
Philip ME Garboden
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Garboden (together with Eva Rosen) will co-author a book examining the supply-side dynamics of low-end rental housing markets in four cities. They will use over 150 semi-structured interviews with landlords and property managers, ethnographic observations, and administrative data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to better understand low-end rental markets.