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Doug McAdam
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
McAdam will assess the extent to which different kinds of school contexts enhance the civic attitudes and behaviors of traditionally disadvantaged students. He will analyze the results of a three-year research project that assesses the “civic effects” of a lottery that transferred first graders from an impoverished district to wealthy, primarily white/Asian districts. He will also investigate the impact of “civic education” at three charter schools.
Leslie McCall
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
McCall will study public opinion and media coverage on economic inequality and related policy preferences. Utilizing survey experiments, media content analysis, and new policy questions, she will investigate responses to class, racial, ethnic, and gender inequality.
Leslie McCall
Rutgers University, Newark
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Leslie McCall, assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University, will study the regional diversity of U.S. labor markets, exploring why wage inequality is so much more acute in some regions of the United States than in others. While most nationwide studies of the causes of rising inequality focus upon technology, trade, or industrial structure, McCall's subnational, regional perspective reveals the importance of immigration, unemployment, and the retreat of labor market institutions.
Monica McDermott
Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
McDermott and Eric Knowles (in collaboration with Jennifer Richeson) will study the attitudes and beliefs of white working-class individuals toward racial minorities and the changing demographics of the U.S. Through laboratory and survey experiments and interviews, they will analyze the conditions that generate both positive and negative perceptions of racial minorities by low-income whites.
Susan Turner Meiklejohn
Hunter College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Hunter College, will write a book assessing the relationship between inter-ethnic friendships among young people in Sunnyside, Queens – one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the world – and their subsequent cultural and political development. Based on 120 face-to-face interviews with young adults and their parents, Meiklejohn’s book will explore issues of racial identity, segregation, and community participation.
Ruth Milkman
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, will write a book about the labor market in Los Angeles, arguing that "low road" strategies by employers to reduce wages and undermine unions have been the driving force in restructuring labor markets. Further, she will argue that the trend towards shifting work to low-wage immigrants was a product and not a cause of that restructuring.
Pyong Gap Min
Queens College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Pyong Gap Min, Professor of Sociology at Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, will write a book examining how the involvement of immigrants in ethnic businesses affects ethnic attachment, solidarity, and conflict. Focusing on Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants in New York City, he will use survey data, interviews with community leaders, and a review of ethnic newspapers to see how different levels of involvement with businesses in an ethnic enclave shape the cultural, social, and psychological integration of the group.
Harvey Molotch
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Harvey Molotch, Professor of Sociology at New York University, will complete a project exploring how New York City subway workers sense and respond to threat, and the corresponding implications for sociological questions of surveillance. Though their work is not formally related to security, these employees are the “first responders” to a large number of social safety issues.
Mignon R. Moore
Barnard College
Visiting Researcher
Mignon R. Moore is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology at Barnard College. She will work on a book analyzing oral histories and archival materials to chart the development of sexual community among working- and middle-class Black women who were migrants, children of migrants, or those already living in northern cities during the second Great Migration. Moore seeks to recover and engage aspects of life and politics that are seldom included in African American histories, LGBTQ histories, and women’s labor histories.
Ann Morning
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Morning (working with Marcello Maneri) will complete a book comparing the ways that Americans and Italians assess group differences such as race and nationality. She will look at how national conceptions of culture and biology shape individuals’ beliefs about what distinguish ethnic groups from one another. She finds that due to increasing non-white immigration to the U.S., Americans’ conceptions of racial difference are coming to resemble those held by Italians and other Western Europeans.
Chandra Muller
University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Muller will examine how education and skills development influence midlife labor force participation among a racially and ethnically diverse group of workers. She will examine how high school and postsecondary education—from specific coursework to degree attainment and field of degree—contribute to labor force success and flexibility in midlife work. She will also investigate how the relationships between educational training and labor force success may differ for workers based on race, gender, and immigration status.
Constance Nathanson
Johns Hopkins University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Constance A. Nathanson, professor in the department of population dynamics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and director of the Hopkins Center on the Demography of Aging, will compare the development of public health policy in France, Britain, Canada, and the United States. Nathanson will analyze how public health risks are constructed, drawing into focus the role of social cleavage as perpetuated through race in the United States, language in Canada, and social class in Britain.
Victor Nee
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Nee will analyze data from a three-year research project on the emergence of a new tech industry in lower Manhattan following the Great Recession. He will investigate how the high level of immigrant involvement—both as tech workers and as entrepreneurs—has shaped the rapid expansion of this industry. Nee will also examine the ways in which political and economic institutions have aided the growth of the Manhattan tech economy.
Dina Okamoto
University of California, Davis
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Dina Okamoto, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, will work on a book examining how residential and occupational segregation have facilitated the formation of a common identity among U.S. immigrants from different Asian countries.
Dina Okamoto
Indiana University
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Okamoto and Linda Tropp will explore immigrant-native relations based on a telephone survey of 2,000 residents of Atlanta and Philadelphia and in-depth interviews with 250 of the survey respondents.
Karl-Dieter Opp
University of Leipzig
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Karl-Dieter Opp, professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig, drafted several chapters of a book that he is writing with Steven Finkel of the University of Virginia in which they will set forth a dynamic theory of collective political action--the conditions under which protest behavior either escalates or diminishes. They will test their propositions using two sets of data, a study of collective political action in West Germany and surveys taken of citizens of Leipzig, the city where protests against the East German communist regime began.
Ann Orloff
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Ann Orloff, Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, will write a book examining the relationship between the welfare reform movement and changing beliefs about the role of women in families and the economy. She will examine the ways in which American public policy shows little regard for full-time caregivers and the consequences of the contemporary “employment for all” attitude on women’s welfare.
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Lisa Sun-Hee Park
University of California, Santa Barbara
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Park will study medical deportations, or the involuntary removal of chronically ill or severely injured immigrants to other nations to avoid the burden of health care costs. Using qualitative interviews and policy analysis, she will analyze the historical and social contexts of this little-known practice and explore its implications for public health and immigration policy. She will also study how immigration advocates and the health care providers and administrators of hospitals and clinics that serve large numbers of low-income immigrant patients have responded to this phenomenon.
Lisandro Perez
Florida International University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Lisandro Perez, associate professor of sociology and anthropology and Director, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, employed an intergenerational study of Cubans in southern Florida to assess the extent to which the extraordinary success of the first generation will be repeated in the next. Perez looked at apparent erosions in the social and economic conditions that favored the first generation of Cubans in Florida, including high female labor force participation, extended family households, and the creation of an economic immigrant enclave.
Becky Pettit
University of Washington
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Becky Pettit, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Washington, will pursue two projects on the role of institutional factors on labor market opportunities and patterns of inequality. Pettit's first project examines the role the prison system plays in perpetuating racial and class inequality in employment and earnings by examining data on inmates' post-release employment histories compared with those of non-inmates. Pettit's second project will examine cross-country variation in women's labor force participation.