Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

Colleen Heflin

Syracuse University

Visiting Researcher

Colleen Heflin will work on a project examining how administrative burdens influence participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Helfin will examine whether the physical presence requirements for WIC enrollment support, rather than burden, program participants. She will draw on data on program uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the federal government allowed localities to waive physical presence requirements in order to minimize the risk of COVID-19 spread.

Annika Hinze

Fordham University

Visiting Researcher

Annika Hinze will work on a project using “ambos Nogales” – sister towns Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, USA which sit across from each other on the U.S.-Mexico border – as a case study for the social, political, and local impact of U.S. border fortification policies. She will examine everyday practices that resist, rework, and/or reproduce boundaries between individuals, communities, and countries along the border.

Hilary Hoynes

University of California, Berkeley

Visiting Researcher

Hilary Hoynes will work on a series of papers examining the effects of welfare reform in the United States on children’s long-term social and economic outcomes. She will revisit five randomized experiments conducted by MDRC in the years leading up to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. In these experiments, welfare recipients were separated into two groups: one group would experience welfare reform policies and the other would continue to receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children program benefits.

Michael Jones-Correa

University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Researcher

Michael Jones-Correa is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught previously at Harvard and at Cornell, where he served as the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government.

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.

Daniel S. Nagin

Carnegie Mellon University

Visiting Researcher

Daniel Nagin will work on a book that examines bystander intervention and decision-making. He will integrate research on “reactive guardianship,” in which bystanders intervene in crimes in progress, and “proactive guardianship,” in which potential offenders are deterred from attempting a crime due to the risk of bystander intervention.

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.

Jon Tebes

University of Notre Dame

Visiting Researcher

Jon Tebes will work on a project that examines how alternate forms of policing affect long-term outcomes of teenage residents, including educational attainment, arrests and incarceration, and employment and earnings. He will leverage two policy reforms that fundamentally altered teenagers’ exposure to neighborhood policing practices. The first is a reform of the New York City Police Department, which, due to a federal lawsuit, reduced patrol officers’ ability to conduct pedestrian stops.

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.