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Ruth Milkman
University of California, Los Angeles
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, will write a book about the labor market in Los Angeles, arguing that "low road" strategies by employers to reduce wages and undermine unions have been the driving force in restructuring labor markets. Further, she will argue that the trend towards shifting work to low-wage immigrants was a product and not a cause of that restructuring.
Ruth Milkman
City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2025 to 2026
Milkman and Heidi Gottfried will examine the complexities of the fast-growing U.S. home care labor market. They will compare formal employment in the Medicaid-funded market segment, formal employment in the privately paid segment, and the 'gray market,' in which clients hire home care workers through informal networks and pay them directly. The project draws on original interviews and survey data collected by Milkman and Gottfried.
Pyong Gap Min
Queens College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Pyong Gap Min, Professor of Sociology at Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, will write a book examining how the involvement of immigrants in ethnic businesses affects ethnic attachment, solidarity, and conflict. Focusing on Chinese, Indian, and Korean immigrants in New York City, he will use survey data, interviews with community leaders, and a review of ethnic newspapers to see how different levels of involvement with businesses in an ethnic enclave shape the cultural, social, and psychological integration of the group.
Ronald B. Mincy
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
In collaboration with Natasha J. Cabrera, Mincy will examine the connections between low-income fathers’ earnings and financial support and their children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes. Using several waves of data from the Fragile Families Study, Cabrera and Mincy will explore how the associations between fathers’ earnings and children’s skills are affected by factors such as race, maternal stress, parental engagement, and child care quality.
John H. Mollenkopf
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.
Harvey Molotch
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Harvey Molotch, Professor of Sociology at New York University, will complete a project exploring how New York City subway workers sense and respond to threat, and the corresponding implications for sociological questions of surveillance. Though their work is not formally related to security, these employees are the “first responders” to a large number of social safety issues.
Mignon Moore
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Mignon Moore, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will author a book that examines the identities of black and Latina lesbian women, looking at their attitudes about relationships, family formation, sexuality, and parenting. Based on two years of interviews, surveys, and participant observations in social environments, Moore argues that race, ethnicity, and cultural experience converge to form an identity and outlook on relationships for lesbian women of color that is distinct from both heterosexual minority women and white lesbians.
Jana Morgan
University of Tennessee
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Morgan will study how rising economic inequality has shaped the priorities of policymakers. She will explore the influence of wealthy voters on the congressional agenda and investigate why most politicians have not pursued initiatives designed to reduce inequality. She will also analyze a database of machine-readable congressional speeches and other sources to understand how monied interests have shaped legislators’ stances on pro-poor and pro-rich policies in the post-World War II period.
Ann Morning
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Morning (working with Marcello Maneri) will complete a book comparing the ways that Americans and Italians assess group differences such as race and nationality. She will look at how national conceptions of culture and biology shape individuals’ beliefs about what distinguish ethnic groups from one another. She finds that due to increasing non-white immigration to the U.S., Americans’ conceptions of racial difference are coming to resemble those held by Italians and other Western Europeans.
Arden Morris
University of Michigan
Visiting Scholar
2014 to 2015
Morris will complete a series of articles on the racial and socioeconomic barriers to cancer care in the U.S., focusing on the association between psychosocial and physiologic stress among colorectal cancer patients. She will describe the impact of clinical and social factors on patient-physician relationships, receipt of care, and levels of stress among these cancer patients.
Rebecca Morton
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Rebecca Morton, Professor of Politics at New York University, will complete a book analyzing the significant variation in how election laws are administered across the nation and how this affects the U.S. political system. Her preliminary research shows that even if states have the same laws, the enforcement of those laws is often selective and influenced by partisan considerations.
Chandra Muller
University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Muller will examine how education and skills development influence midlife labor force participation among a racially and ethnically diverse group of workers. She will examine how high school and postsecondary education—from specific coursework to degree attainment and field of degree—contribute to labor force success and flexibility in midlife work. She will also investigate how the relationships between educational training and labor force success may differ for workers based on race, gender, and immigration status.
Edward Patrick Mulvey
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Mulvey will continue his work on the Pathways to Desistance study, which follows a large sample of juvenile offenders from adolescence to young adulthood. Using interviews with the offenders and their friends and family, this project compares the effects of sanctions and interventions in promoting positive changes among serious adolescent offenders.
Maria Victoria Murillo
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Murillo will write a book exploring the impact of income inequality on voter expectations and the ability of political parties to respond equitably to rich and poor constituents. She argues that in democracies with high inequality, politicians are often torn between promoting policies that will serve the public good and responding to the narrower demands of particular groups. Murillo will utilize longitudinal data and in-depth interviews with elected politicians and political workers collected in Argentina, Peru, and Chile.
Samuel L. Myers, Jr.
University of Minnesota
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Myers will investigate the “Minnesota Paradox”--the fact that while Minnesota is often cited as one of the best places to live in America, it is one of the worst places for blacks to live. His research project will analyze the causes of racial gaps in social and economic outcomes in the state. Through a combination of historical documentation and illustrations from ten different areas of significant racial disparities, he will explore the relationship between the state’s progressive policies and racial gaps.
Daniel S. Nagin
Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Nagin will write a book in collaboration with Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin, that describes strategies for reforming the criminal justice system in ways that reduce incarceration rates and crime simultaneously. They argue that both imprisonment and crime can be reduced by implementing policies that reallocate resources from incarceration to policing, parole, and probation systems.
Jonathan Nagler
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Nagler will work on a book that examines how increases in economic inequality have affected voter turnout in congressional elections from 1972 through 2014. Using a variety of data sources not previously available, he will assess the ideologies of congressional candidates across many elections, and explore how turnout was affected by the ways in which voters from different income groups perceived those candidates' positions.
Sylvia Nasar
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Sylvia Nasar, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, will spend the spring at the Foundation writing a book on the intersecting histories of key economic thinkers in the past 150 years. She will profile great economists, from Alfred Marshall to Amartya Sen, whose work helped shift the focus of economics from the study of the limited potential for growth to the problem of poverty amid plenty.
Constance Nathanson
Johns Hopkins University
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Constance A. Nathanson, professor in the department of population dynamics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and director of the Hopkins Center on the Demography of Aging, will compare the development of public health policy in France, Britain, Canada, and the United States. Nathanson will analyze how public health risks are constructed, drawing into focus the role of social cleavage as perpetuated through race in the United States, language in Canada, and social class in Britain.
Victor Nee
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Nee will analyze data from a three-year research project on the emergence of a new tech industry in lower Manhattan following the Great Recession. He will investigate how the high level of immigrant involvement—both as tech workers and as entrepreneurs—has shaped the rapid expansion of this industry. Nee will also examine the ways in which political and economic institutions have aided the growth of the Manhattan tech economy.