Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

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.

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.