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Jelani Ince
University of Washington
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Ince will use evidence from a two-year (2018-2020) ethnography of Risen Church, an interracial church in St. Louis, Missouri, to examine why DEI initiatives fail despite explicit commitments to their successful implementation. Ince will use ethnographic, interview, and administrative data to develop a sociological theory of philanthropic capture: a structural condition in which philanthropic organizations tether diversity missions to the preferences of elite donors.
José Itzigsohn
Brown University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
José Itzigsohn, Associate Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, will write a book examining the labor market experiences and shifts in ethnic identity of Dominican immigrants as they adapt to American society in Providence, Rhode Island. His work will examine Dominican immigrants’ career trajectories, involvement with ethnic organizations, and attachments to their country of origin.
Aurora P. Jackson
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Aurora P. Jackson, assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, studied the experiences of black single mothers working at low-income jobs, with a view toward defining the specific aspects of work and family that most affect their well-being and that of their children.
James S. Jackson
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Jackson will research population disparities in physical and mental health, examining how the interactions among environmental factors (such as neighborhood conditions), chronic stressors (such as poverty and crime), and physiological and hormonal responses, contribute to poor health outcomes for African Americans.
Thomas F. Jackson
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Thomas F. Jackson, Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, will conduct research for a narrative history of the United States welfare reform debate from 1950 to the present. The American welfare system derives its unique shape from a convergence of cultural, political, and moral forces, and in particular the notions of worthiness and dependency which have been continually recast in the political arena.
Elizabeth Jacobs
University of Connecticut
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Jacobs will examine skilled migration as a central and growing hallmark of U.S. migration policy. Using LinkedIn employment histories in tandem with longitudinal in-depth interviews, she will analyze how migration policy shapes the spatial and occupational mobility of skilled migrants moving between the United States and India. The project situates student and work visas within the complex maze of the U.S. migration system and articulates an institutional framework for understanding how state and corporate actors regulate and constrain opportunities for migrants and institutions alike.
Karl Jacoby
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Jacoby will finish a book examining race relations along the U.S.–Mexico border. Drawing on interviews and archival research, he will analyze the distinct systems of racial classification found in the two countries despite their geographical proximity, and examine how the border shapes race relations in both countries.
Christine Jang-Trettien
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Jang-Trettien will examine housing markets in segregated neighborhoods in Baltimore. Using over 400 interviews, she describes the emergence of unregulated markets, probing the institutional actors and real estate practices that become prevalent in such markets. This project builds on the idea of “institutional marginalization” and how it perpetuates disadvantage in segregated communities.
Markus Jäntti
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Markus Jäntti, Professor of Economics, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Timothy Smeeding, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Syracuse University, form a working group that will compare recent patterns of social and economic mobility in the United States with other advanced economies in an effort to determine whether America’s high rate of economic inequality is mitigated by greater economic mobility.
Janis Jenkins
Case Western Reserve University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Janis Jenkins, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, worked on a project comparing how American families of Puerto Rican and European descent cope with chronic psychiatric illness. She is interested in specifying how social and living conditions in different family settings mediate the course and outcome of a major illness such as schizophrenia or a major depressive disorder.
Jennifer Jennings
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Jennings will examine the barriers to access to high-quality high schools for low-income students. Using a decade of administrative data from the New York City Department of Education, she will analyze how students’ school choices and placements are influenced by their families, their proximity to good schools, and schools’ admissions policies. She will also explore the extent to which providing low-income families with resources such as fact sheets on high-performing schools can increase their placement at those schools.
David S. Johnson
U.S. Census Bureau
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Johnson will write a series of papers examining the national measures of income and consumption in order to determine whether such measures are effective gauges of economic well-being and inequality. He will analyze the different levels of measurement error in diverse survey data, including the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Current Population Survey, National Income and Product Accounts, and linked survey and administrative income data available at the Census Research Data Center.
Eric Johnson
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Eric Johnson (Fall 2007), Norman Eig Professor of Business at Columbia University, and Elke Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia University, will spend the fall semester working together on a chapter on “Judgment and Decision Making” for the Annual Review of Psychology, focused on cognitive processes in judgment and choice.
James H. Johnson, Jr.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
James Johnson, associate professor of political science at the University of Rochester, and Jack Knight, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the challenges that models of political institutions pose to democratic theorists. Their research will show that the results of these models, primarily from game theory, do not represent so dire a threat to democratic commitments as commonly is supposed.
Rucker C. Johnson
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Johnson will analyze the consequences of school desegregation and school quality on adult educational attainment, earnings, incarceration, and health status. Based on these findings, Johnson will write a book evaluating the long-term impact of War on Poverty policies that were designed to improve school resources for minority and poor children. He will also analyze the links between educational investment and childhood development from preschool to high school and beyond.
Michael Jones-Correa
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Michael Jones-Correa, assistant professor in the department of government at Harvard University, will examine how the cities of Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C., each responded to recent civil disturbances arising from tensions between African-Americans and recent immigrants. In the aftermath of unrest, a variety of new community initiatives arose from both the public and private sectors to address inequities and to attempt to build bridges between ethnic and racial groups.
Christian Joppke
International University Bremen
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Christian Joppke, professor of political and social sciences at the European University Institute, will write a book on the ways in which racial and ethnic selection criteria for immigrants are at odds with the precepts of liberal states. Joppke will compare the immigration policies of "liberal" states and "ethnic" states (such as Japan) with respect to public neutrality on immigration and the principle of equality.
Chinhui Juhn
University of Houston
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Juhn will work on a book that combines economic analysis and personal interviews to examine the future of the U.S. workforce. She will look at what jobs are likely to exist in the future as globalization and technology reduce the need for workers in many areas. She will investigate whether current fertility patterns and investments in children are on course to meet those workforce requirements. Juhn will also examine how a changing labor market, marriage options, and challenges of work-life balance affect men’s and women’s desires for children and family.
Benjamin Justice
Rutgers University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Justice (together with Tracey Meares) will co-author a book on how experiences with criminal legal institutions shape one’s civic identity. Drawing on scholarship from law, history, and the social sciences, they will examine how legally innocent people encounter three phases of the “curriculum” of American justice: policing, pretrial detention, and adjudication.
Lawrence Kahn
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Lawrence M. Kahn, professor of labor economics and collective bargaining, and Francine D. Blau, professor of industrial and labor relations, both at Cornell University, will prepare an international study of labor market institutions (such as collective bargaining, unemployment insurance, and family leave) and their impact on labor market outcomes, including unemployment, wage trends, inequality, and women's pay.