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Ann Chih Lin
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Ann Chih Lin, assistant professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, will study how first-generation immigrants to the United States become involved in politics and the barriers that hinder their participation, including economic insecurity, language difficulties, and a lack of familiarity or identification with the political culture of their adopted country. She will concentrate her work on Arab immigrants living in multiethnic Detroit neighborhoods. Lin will investigate who participates and why.
Milton Lodge
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Lodge and James L. Gibson will examine the use of judicial symbols (robes of judges, the honorific forms of address, the temple-like buildings in which courts are usually housed) to inculcate democratic values in different cultural contexts. They will test their hypothesis that citizens who positively view judicial symbols are more likely to accept court decisions they disagree with. They hope to understand why people obey the law and whether judicial symbols enhance the efficacy of courts.
John R. Logan
State University of New York, Albany
Visiting Scholar
1996 to 1997
John R. Logan, professor of sociology and public administration and policy at the State University of New York, Albany, analyzed the historical origins of ethnic and racial segregation in New York City. He wrote two RSF Working papers, "White Ethnics in the New York Economy, 1920-1960" and "The Ethnic Neighborhood, 1920-1970," in which he concludes that disparities in assimilation of white ethnic groups early in the century were more pronounced than previously believed.
Trevon Logan
The Ohio State University
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Logan will work on a book exploring key issues in the economic analysis of racial disparities. He will combine quantitative data with narrative life histories of 16 African American siblings who were cotton pickers in rural, post-war Mississippi and who are now retired and live in the upper Midwest.
Bonita London-Thompson
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
London-Thompson will work on several interrelated research projects involving marginalized groups and how individuals within them perceive and respond to race-based rejection. Her work will focus on how individuals develop different expectations of marginalized groups and how these differences impact coping and behavioral strategies, as well as life outcomes, such as health and academic achievement for members of these groups.
Vivian Louie
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Vivian Louie, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, will write a book on the transition from high school to college among second-generation Dominican and Colombian youth in New York City and Boston. She will analyze how the children of immigrants develop their own identities, how they see themselves as differing from their parents, and the extent to which they view the transition to higher education as becoming part of the American mainstream.
Yao Lu
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Lu and Neeraj Kaushal 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.
Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Ludwig will write a book about how neighborhood environments affect the life chances and well-being of low-income families, using data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Moving to Opportunity residential mobility experiment.
Shelly J. Lundberg
University of Washington
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Shelly J. Lundberg, Castor Professor of Economics at the University of Washington, will complete a non-technical book on the economics of family behavior that applies economic reasoning to changing patterns in fertility, marriage, gender roles, and domestic life in modern industrial societies. Lundberg will address a variety of issues such as class divergence in family patterns and the converging economic lives of men and women from an economic perspective.
Amy Lutz
Syracuse University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Lutz and Pamela R. Bennett will write a book that examines the different ways parents approach their children’s education. This working group will explore the sources of variation in parenting styles across class, race/ethnicity, and immigrant generations. They will draw on survey data, in-depth qualitative interviews, and academic data to analyze dynamics within families, schools, and neighborhoods and to better understand the roots of social behavior.
Mona Lynch
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Lynch will write a book on how ongoing changes in federal drug sentencing laws play out at the court level. She will examine how entrenched norms, practices, and incentives within federal courts present formidable barriers to efforts aimed at reducing the racial imbalances in drug sentencing.
Nancy MacLean
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Nancy MacLean, associate professor of history and fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, will be writing a history of affirmative action in employment. She will integrate a social history of workplace struggles over discrimination with an intellectual history of the various ways affirmative action has been conceived and debated. As well as changing American workplaces, disputes over affirmative action have refashioned American political culture and recast the way Americans think about race and gender.
W. Bentley MacLeod
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
MacLeod is part of a working group (with Miguel Urquiola), which will examine the structure of educational markets, including how students are matched to schools and whether the use of standardized tests in schools impacts student performance and their potential in the labor market. Separately, MacLeod will analyze the role of different forms of compensation in labor markets and in the growth of inequality. Miguel Urquiola plans to complete a report on how family and school environment interact to affect outcomes for children.
Gabriele Magni
Loyola Marymount University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Magni will examine the experiences of LGBTQ political candidates. He will draw on survey data, an original dataset of political candidates and district characteristics, archival materials covering political campaigns, and interviews with LGBTQ candidates and their staff to explore their decisions to run for office, the role that sexual orientation and gender identity play during their campaigns, the barriers they face, and election results.
Neil Malhotra
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Malhotra will write a book that discusses how much attention voters pay to recent events and how it affects their voting behavior. While the literature presents such voter responsiveness as beneficial, Malhotra argues the American public may be too responsive, a tendency he labels “hyper-accountability.”
Jeff Manza
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Jeff Manza, Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern University, will write a book and several journal articles on why industrial countries provide such widely varied levels of welfare benefits. Manza will examine how public opinion influences the size of a country’s welfare state, comparing public opinion and social spending data from 17 developed countries with varying degrees of social welfare provision.
Isabela Mares
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Isabela Mares, Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, will complete a manuscript looking at the evolution of widely varying policies of social protection in weak states like those of Southeast Asia or Central America. Over the past twenty years, some of these countries have enacted universal health care coverage, while making no provision for old-age insurance; other countries have moved in the opposite direction, shifting the responsibility for providing health insurance and retirement benefits entirely to the private sector.
Avishai Margalit
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Avishai Margalit, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will write a book on how care and trust cement relations of solidarity within groups. People's sense of solidarity is grounded in diverse attributes: kinship, age, gender, nationality, proximity, occupation. In Margalit's book, a sequel to two previous books, The Decent Society (1996) and Ethics of Memory (2001), he will single out the shared history of oppression and persecution and examine its force and validity as ground for solidarity. Are there obligations of solidarity among victims?
Robert A. Margo
Boston University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Robert A. Margo, Professor of Economics and African American Studies at Boston University, will complete a book on the historic evolution of racial differences in housing. Margo will analyze long-run trends in home ownership, property values, residential segregation, urban riots, and relevant legal and policy issues.
Terry Maroney
Vanderbilt University
Visiting Scholar
2022 to 2023
Maroney will work on a book examining the role of emotion in judges’ experiences, behaviors, and decision making. She will analyze in-depth interviews and survey data to better understand the ways in which emotions and management of emotions interact with the constraints and demands of various judicial roles.