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Arne L. Kalleberg
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Kalleberg will trace the historical evolution of corporate power and inequality in the United States. He will examine how shifts in the balance of power among corporations, labor, and government have led to changes in economic and social inequality throughout different periods, especially since World War II. He will explore the relationship between increasing corporate power and the rise of low-wage jobs, polarization of the economy, and the shrinking of the middle class.
Arne L. Kalleberg
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Arne L. Kalleberg, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will study flexible staffing arrangements - such as temporary, part-time, and contract work - looking at the quality of such jobs, employers' motivations for creating them, and workers' reasons for taking them. Employers may use flexible staffing to cut costs or to cope with labor shortages. If they aim to cut costs, job quality is likely to be low. On the other hand, if they face a labor shortage, they will have to make flexible jobs more appealing.
Philip Kasinitz
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf, professors of sociology and political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will analyze the findings of a major study of the new second generation of immigrants in metropolitan New York, which they are directing with Professor Mary Waters of Harvard University.
Lawrence F. Katz
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Lawrence F. Katz, professor of economics at Harvard University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard University, program director for the Development of the American Economy, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, conducted historical research into the impact of technological and educational developments on the American economy during the years 1910 to 1960.
Vikki S. Katz
Rutgers University
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Katz will examine how immigration status and migration history affect the experiences of low-income Latino parents who are facing allegations of child abuse or neglect in the Bronx Family Court. Using data from a 26-month ethnographic study, she will explore how immigrant families make sense of their court involvement, how they navigate and understand court mandates, and the extent to which the courts is managing to address the needs of a diverse Latino population.
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, professor of government at Cornell University, is preparing a book on federal policy and its impact on the growth of prisons. Katzenstein will study federal policies across legislative, judicial, and executive arenas and examine three significant issues: the weakening of voting rights for ex-felons, mandatory drug sentencing, and the withdrawal of funding for prison education.
Peter J. Katzenstein
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, will write a book on regional relationships among nations and the effects of globalization and internationalism on creating new, open forms of regionalism. Drawing on a decade of research, Katzenstein suggests not only that contemporary regionalism differs markedly from the regionalism of the 1930s but that regionalism takes different forms in different parts of the world.
Ira Katznelson
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University, John Lapinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and Rose Razaghian, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, form a working group that will examine the entire history of Congressional roll call votes to study how the type of policy at stake in legislative debate determines political relationships and outcomes.
Neeraj Kaushal
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Kaushal and Yao Lu will complete a study comparing immigrant selection and assimilation in Canada and the U.S. Their research will systematically assess the relative selection of immigrants to these countries with respect to levels of education, host country language proficiency, and initial earnings. They will further examine the relative economic well-being of immigrants in these two countries after adjusting for different levels of immigrant selection. They will examine how these trends have shifted since 1990.
Nathan Kelly
University of Tennessee
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Kelly will complete a book on the relationship between political and economic inequality, focusing on how high levels of economic inequality can produce an “inequality trap,” or a cycle in which economic inequality reinforces itself by changing how the political system functions. He will analyze how factors such as political deadlock in Congress, election outcomes, and public opinion contribute to this feedback loop.
Judd B. Kessler
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Kessler (working with Andrew Schotter) will write a series of papers examining the impact of both explicit and implicit advice on people’s decision making processes and their subsequent life outcomes. He hypothesizes that one of the reasons why the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor is the quality of advice each receives when they make major life decisions.
Eunji Kim
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Kim will examine the relationship between media exposure and mass attitudes toward policing. She will draw on survey data, Nielsen ratings data, and experiments to investigate the extent to which widespread exposure to popular police procedural TV shows, ranging from Blue Bloods to Chicago P.D, promotes favorable attitudes toward the police and excessive use of force.
Gabriela Kirk-Werner
Syracuse University
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Kirk-Werner and Mary Ellen Stitt will examine the operation and impact of programs that promise alternatives to criminal prosecution and punishment, including court-mandated mental and behavioral health and drug treatment, community service hours, and electronic monitoring. Despite the popularity of such programs, little is known about how they shape criminal legal processes or the daily lives of the millions of people assigned to them every year.
Shinobu Kitayama
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Kitayama will draw on three decades of empirical research in cultural psychology and neuroscience to write a book that argues that the human mind is shaped and transformed by social and cultural contexts, rather than biology. He will explore how different socio-cultural environments influence the relationship between peoples’ subjective, psychological health and their objective, biological health. He will also study how culture, social class, and other factors affect individuals’ cognition, motivation, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
Barbara Kiviat
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Kiviat will analyze the 30-year battle over whether car insurers should be able to raise prices on drivers with low credit scores. She will draw on documents from public policy debates, interviews with insurance company executives and insurance regulators, and participant observation to explore the moral justifications for using algorithmic predictions of behavior to offer individuals different products and prices.
Jennifer Klein
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Klein will explore the interconnections between the history of incarceration and the environment in Southeastern Louisiana. She will focus on the institutions that took root on Louisiana’s former sugar plantations: prisons and confinement hospitals, chemical plants, and waste removal facilities. Revealing the profitable processes of waste, the project will highlight the relationships between mass incarceration, coerced labor, and environmental racism.
Gail Kligman
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Gail Kligman, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Katherine Verdery, Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, will conduct a joint study of how a nation’s concept of property as being either private or public influences people’s sense of identity.
Robert Klitzman
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Robert Klitzman, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, will draw on in-depth interviews to examine issues of trust raised by the HIV epidemic. How do people trust a sexual partner who tells them they are not a carrier of the virus? Given the stigma associated with the disease, how do people with HIV decide whom to trust with knowledge of their illness? How are these decisions affected by social factors, such as ethnicity, gender, and social class?
Jack Knight
Washington University in St. Louis
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Jack Knight, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and James Johnson, associate professor of political science at the University of Rochester, 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.
Eric Knowles
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Knowles and Monica McDermott (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.