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Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Kohler-Hausmann will complete a book on how New York City’s signature policing tactics—including “broken windows” and “quality-of-life” policies—have contributed to mass misdemeanor arrests. Drawing from three years of fieldwork, unique datasets, and interviews with prosecutors, judges, defense attorneys and defendants, she will study how misdemeanor cases contribute to racial and class inequalities despite the fact that they often do not result in criminal convictions or jail sentences.
Atul Kohli
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Atul Kohli, professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, partially completed a book comparing the role of the state in promoting industrialization in four developing countries, South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria. He wrote an essay based on this work for the journal World Development and also edited two volumes, one on the state and ethnic conflict in India and the other on the role of the state in managing security problems.
Wojciech Kopczuk
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Kopczuk will work on measurement of trends in income inequality. In particular, using corporate tax data, he will analyze the extent to which retained corporate earnings have affected prior measurements of income at the top of the distribution. He will also explore how the movements of high-income and high-skilled migrants have affected trends in income inequality in both their destination and origin countries.
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz
University of Maryland, College Park
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Roberto Korzeniewicz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Timothy Moran, Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY, Stony Brook form a working group that will be at the Foundation in the fall to write a book examining inequality from a global perspective, focused on rising economic disparities among countries around the world. They will argue that trends in the last century have led to reduced inequality within wealthy nations, but accentuated inequality between rich and poor nations.
Rachel E. Kranton
University of Maryland
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Rachel E. Kranton, assistant professor of economics at the University of Maryland, explored the enduring importance of personal ties in negotiating economic exchange. In the expanding global economy, arrangements based on common ethnicity, family connections, and shared educational backgrounds still play an integral market role. Kranton investigated how community- and relationship-based channels of exchange can replace or complement impersonal markets.
Michael W. Kraus
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Kraus will examine how Asians in the U.S. have been impacted by increases in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. He will draw on original survey data, data from the Pew Research Center American Trends Panel, Center of Disease Control and Prevention data, and an experiment to explore how these experiences have affected work and communal spaces for Asian populations and their engagement in anti-racism efforts.
Alan Krueger
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy and professor of economics and public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, will tackle multiple projects, including a study of whether there is a connection between terrorism and poverty, low income, and political repression. During his year at the Foundation, Krueger will also examine private school voucher experiments, the ways in which the public learns about the economy, the effectiveness of the Fast ForWord reading program, and methods of measuring well-being.
Maria Krysan
Pennsylvania State University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Maria Krysan, assistant professor of sociology at Pennsylvania State University, will study the role of residential preferences in perpetuating racial segregation. Whereas research on segregation has often focused on discrimination in the housing search process, Krysan employs survey research to investigate the role of white and minority attitudes toward living in racially mixed or homogeneous neighborhoods. She explores how groups differ in their preferences, and the degree to which such preferences arise from racial bias, fear of harassment, or other causes.
Michal Kurlaender
University of California, Davis
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Kurlaender will research inequality in higher education, using data from California’s public higher education systems to explore the correlates of racial and socioeconomic disparities in academic achievement and college completion. She will also evaluate policies aimed at increasing college completion and explore how different institutions’ programs and practices can either ameliorate or exacerbate attainment gaps.
Karyn Lacy
Emory University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
Karyn Lacy, assistant professor of sociology at Emory University, will write a book that examines the formation of class-based identity among participants in an elite African American mothers' organization and the cultural consequences for their children. Many of these organizations were originally created to counteract the effects of segregation and to surround children with appropriate role models.
David D. Laitin
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2003 to 2004
David D. Laitin, professor of political science at Stanford University, will pursue two projects: a book on the causes of civil war, and a study of integration and trust among Russian-speaking immigrants. Laitin has completed a statistical and formal analysis of the causes of civil war, and while at the Foundation he will mine this data to develop a more complete picture of what led to war in 20 randomly selected countries. Laitin will also work on an ethnography exploring issues of trust in Russian immigrant communities in the Baltics, Brooklyn, and Israel.
Susan J. Lambert
University of Chicago
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Lambert will write a book that examines how employer scheduling practices create social and economic inequality and considers strategies for improving schedule stability and predictability in hourly jobs. She will investigate what drives precarious scheduling practices, how they vary across occupations and industries, which employees are most affected by them, and how these practices contribute to inequality in the workplace.
Michèle Lamont
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Lamont will work on a book that explores how Americans conceive of their self-worth in the context of growing economic inequality. Drawing from interviews with individuals from across the class spectrum, she will explore whether Americans increasingly understand their own “worthiness” through their socioeconomic success, self-reliance, and competitiveness, and analyze implications for the hardening of class and ethno-racial boundaries. She will propose ways to foster greater social inclusion by promoting more hopeful narratives and meaningful engagement of stigmatized groups.
Michèle Lamont
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
Michele Lamont, associate professor of sociology at Princeton University, worked on a book that will examine the class, racial, and cultural differences among low-status white-collar and blue-collar workers residing in the suburbs of New York and Paris. She completed the analysis of 150 interviews, on which the work is based, and wrote two RSF working papers, "The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Racism in France and the United States" and "Above People Above: Status and Worth among White and Black Workers."
Louise Lamphere
University of New Mexico
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Louise Lamphere, the University Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, will complete an extensive ethnography of the way managed care organizations (MCOs) have affected the delivery of health care to low-income Medicaid families from different cultural and ethnic groups. Lamphere will not only organize and present collaborative material garnered from the study but will contribute her own research on clerical and semi-professional staff working for health care providers in New Mexico.
John Lapinski
Yale 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.
Annette Lareau
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Lareau will explore how parents of young children choose where to live and where to send their children to school. She argues that school selection is not a matter of individual parents making a decision in isolation but instead a socially-shaped dynamic through which parents seek to transmit advantages to their school-aged children. She will draw on interviews with parents in three suburban neighborhoods to analyze school-choice decisions.
Edward J. Lawler
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Edward J. Lawler, Martin P. Catherwood Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, will write a book on the role of emotion in forming group attachments. He will examine how emotional processes among individuals in a group generate positive or negative sentiments about the group itself – whether among immediate local groups of neighbors or coworkers or among larger social entities such as a multi-national corporations or nations.
Catherine Lee
Rutgers University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Catherine Lee, assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University, will write a book that examines how and why family and family reunification have been central to the regulation of immigration throughout U.S. history. Lee will trace the development of immigration policies from 1865 on, analyzing the ways in which constructs of the family and nation have shaped policymaking and continue to influence current efforts at reform.
Jennifer Lee
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Lee will write a book comparing the different mobility pathways of the adult children of Mexican, Chinese, and Vietnamese immigrants in Los Angeles. Departing from earlier studies, she will rely on the subjects’ assessments of success rather than normative definitions. Lee will bridge the immigration and culture literatures to illustrate how ethnicity can operate as a resource for the children of immigrants, particularly for those whose parents arrive with few skills and little education.