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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.
Melissa J. Marschall
Rice University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Melissa J. Marschall, associate professor of political science at Rice University, will write a book on the involvement of immigrant parents in schools, examining how broader institutional and governing factors influence the incentives and behaviors of schools and parents. The study will focus on the organization and leadership of schools and parent-school interactions across four distinct ethnic groups: Chinese, Dominicans, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
Michael P. Massagli
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Visiting Scholar
1995 to 1996
Michael P. Massagli, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, collaborated with colleagues on various aspects of the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality. He wrote and presented RSF two papers, one on wage differences among blacks, Hispanics, and whites and the other on residential segregation in Boston. He also evaluated computer software for analysis of MCSUI data and is preparing a working guide for its use by his co-investigators.
Douglas S. Massey
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will advance two books on immigration in America. The first book will illuminate the beliefs and practices of recently arrived legal immigrants to the United States, examining how practices condition the process of assimilation in various domains of American life. The second will undertake a systematic analysis of how the patterns, processes, causes, and consequences of U.S. migration have changed in the last twenty-five years.
Yalidy Matos
Rutgers University
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Matos will explore the importance of racial identity and underlying racial ideologies in Latina/o politics. She hypothesizes that the conceptualization of Latinos as a panethnic group glosses over the significance of discrete racial identities and racialized ideologies for how Latino/as make sense of the world around them and their political attitudes and behavior.
Doug McAdam
Stanford University
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
McAdam will assess the extent to which different kinds of school contexts enhance the civic attitudes and behaviors of traditionally disadvantaged students. He will analyze the results of a three-year research project that assesses the “civic effects” of a lottery that transferred first graders from an impoverished district to wealthy, primarily white/Asian districts. He will also investigate the impact of “civic education” at three charter schools.
Andrew McAfee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
McAfee will work on a book about the economic and social implications of recent rapid progress in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). His study will trace the ways in which artificial intelligence is evolving, and analyze how these changes may impact jobs and wages, income inequality, and the health of individuals and communities.
Leslie McCall
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
McCall will study public opinion and media coverage on economic inequality and related policy preferences. Utilizing survey experiments, media content analysis, and new policy questions, she will investigate responses to class, racial, ethnic, and gender inequality.
Leslie McCall
Rutgers University, Newark
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Leslie McCall, assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University, will study the regional diversity of U.S. labor markets, exploring why wage inequality is so much more acute in some regions of the United States than in others. While most nationwide studies of the causes of rising inequality focus upon technology, trade, or industrial structure, McCall's subnational, regional perspective reveals the importance of immigration, unemployment, and the retreat of labor market institutions.
James A. McCann
Purdue University
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
McCann will complete a book on the effects of political campaigns in fostering partisan identification among Latino immigrants. Though other research on this topic has shown immigrants to be generally estranged from party politics, McCann finds considerable “potential” partisanship among immigrants. He will also coauthor an essay on Latino politics and immigration for the first issue of the new RSF online journal.