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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.
Gwyneth McClendon
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
McClendon will draw on psychology and neuroscience research to analyze how political movements invite people and communities to reimagine political structures. Focusing on social movements in the United States and South Africa, McClendon’s project will include both analysis of digital communications and a series of online experiments. The project will demonstrate how social movements that aim to reduce inequality stimulate the public’s imagination and to what effect.
Monica McDermott
Arizona State University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
McDermott and Eric Knowles (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.
Adam McKeown
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Adam McKeown, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, will complete a book analyzing the historical roots of the modern system of immigrant documentation, such as identity cards, visas, and passports. McKeown argues that these controls evolved and were developed in the process of regulating migration from Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Kathleen R. McNamara
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Kathleen R. McNamara, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, will study the politics of globalization in the context of tax and spending policies in the European Union. What limits and demands have the increasingly integrated E.U. markets placed on fiscal policymaking within each member state? Will fiscal policymaking, at present the province of elected officials, become as removed from electoral accountability as the monetary policy of the independent central bank? Does market integration always lead to convergence in policies?
Tracey Meares
Yale University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Meares (together with Benjamin Justice) 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.
Ajay Mehrotra
Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation
Visiting Scholar
2025 to 2026
Mehrotra will examine why the U.S. has historically resisted a broad-based national consumption tax, such as a value-added tax (VAT), and what that resistance reveals about inequality. His historical analysis of tax policy will investigate the role of fiscal experts in advancing or inhibiting a consumption tax, how different political interests have exerted power over the lawmaking process to support or oppose such taxes, and how historical events have created obstacles for supporters of a national consumption tax.
Susan Turner Meiklejohn
Hunter College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Hunter College, will write a book assessing the relationship between inter-ethnic friendships among young people in Sunnyside, Queens – one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the world – and their subsequent cultural and political development. Based on 120 face-to-face interviews with young adults and their parents, Meiklejohn’s book will explore issues of racial identity, segregation, and community participation.
Barbara Mellers
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Barbara Mellers, Milton W. Terrill Chair and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, will work on research projects related to the influence of emotion on decision making. She will work to develop a theoretical framework to understand why some people are more cooperative than others, and consider the consequences of her theories for behavioral economics and public policy. She will also study the ways in which expectations affect the experience of losses or gains, and the policy implications of human errors in jury decision making.
Tali Mendelberg
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Mendelberg will conduct an in-depth analysis of the consequences of affluence on American college campuses, looking at how concentrations of high-income students at universities may reinforce economic inequality. She will explore whether the presence of many affluent students creates social norms on campuses that prioritize the wealthy and marginalize low-income students, thereby leading to lower rates of leadership and future political participation among low-income young adults.
Ilan Meyer
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Ilan Meyer, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, will write a book on health in minority communities which will explore the role of stigma, prejudice, and discrimination in causing health disparities between groups. He will argue that such social stressors can lead to adverse mental and physical health outcomes for minorities, but that social support from other group members and the community at large can ameliorate some of these effects.