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Philip Kasinitz
City University of New York
Visiting Researcher
Kasinitz is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He will work on a book with RSF author and former board chair Mary Waters (Harvard University) that explores the changing landscape of racial and ethnic stratification in American society.
Shamus Khan
Columbia University
Visiting Researcher
Khan will write a book, Exceptional: The Astors, Elite New York, and the Story of American Equality, that traces the history of American inequality from the 1790s to 2006 by focusing on the position and experiences of the elite in New York City.
Robert Kuttner
American Prospect
Visiting Researcher
Kuttner is the founder and co-editor of the American Prospect. At RSF he worked on a book assessing how globalization has complicated the project of managing capitalism and even affected democracy itself. He investigated the extent to which globalization, technology, cultural shifts, and domestic policies have contributed to growing wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and other countries.
Judith Levine
Temple University
Visiting Researcher
Judith Levine will work on a book examining how college seniors transition to employment. Drawing on 280 interviews with over one hundred college seniors at an urban university in the Northeast, Levine will compare the experiences of first-generation and continuing-generation college students. She will also examine how the transition to employment varies for first-generation college students by race, ethnicity, and gender.
Mona Lynch
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Researcher
Mona Lynch will draw on video-recorded deliberations data from two large-scale mock jury studies that test how the race of defendants and individual jurors and jury group racial characteristics interact in predicting verdicts in a drug conspiracy case. Both studies resulted in an unexpected finding: mock jurors became significantly less supportive of a guilty verdict for a Black defendant charged in a federal drug conspiracy case, relative to a white defendant, after small group deliberations.
Jane Mansbridge
Visiting Researcher
Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Osterman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Researcher
Paul Osterman will work on a book examining the emerging nature of the employment relationship and what kinds of policies are appropriate for people whose economic outcomes are put at risk by these developments. He will focus on occupations which are being “cut-loose” from traditional employment relationships. This growing trend includes the rise of freelancing and contract work, but is broader and more complex that these two categories.
Francesca Polletta
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Researcher
Francesca Polletta will work on three projects investigating the cultural impacts of social movements. The first project will investigate how news coverage of the feminist movement impacted women’s beliefs about gender. The second project will examine how popular women’s magazines discussed the women’s liberation movement and how treatment of the movement affected American’s attitudes on gender.
Wendy Roth
University of British Columbia
Visiting Researcher
Wendy Roth is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, focusing on race, ethnicity, and immigration, with substantive interests in Latin America, transnational processes, multiracial populations and identities, and intersections of race and genomics.
Rosemary Taylor
Tufts University
Visiting Researcher
2018 to 2019
Rosemary Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology and Community Health at Tufts University. Drawing upon extensive archival material and interviews, she will develop a new analytical perspective on how governments cope with risk, focusing on the process whereby scientific judgments are generated and integrated into policy-making.
Tom R. Tyler
Yale University
Visiting Researcher
Tom Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He will examine how the law and legal institutions are currently structured around a coercive model of authority and could be differently and better organized around an alternative model of legal authority based upon popular legitimacy.
James Ziliak
University of Kentucky
Visiting Researcher
James Ziliak will work on a project investigating inequality in labor market outcomes of men and women across the life cycle, focusing on the roles of changing employment, hours of work, and the wage levels of workers on inequality. He will use data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 1976-2018 to better understand life cycle gender wage inequality among different birth cohorts across income groups.