Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

Christopher Rhomberg

Yale University

Visiting Scholar

2006 to 2007

Christopher Rhomberg, Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University, will write a book on the current crisis of American unions, focusing on the breakdown of collective bargaining. Using archival and interview research, he will explore the Detroit newspaper strike of the 1990s as a key example of modern industrial relations and social movements.

Wilbur C. Rich

Wellesley College

Visiting Scholar

2000 to 2001

Wilbur Rich, professor of political science at Wellesley College, will work on a book about the role of the press in shaping public conceptions of U.S. city mayors, including David Dinkins, former mayor of New York, and Thomas Menino, mayor of Boston. Both mayors were the first of their ethnic group to lead their cities, and both owe their public image to the press. Mayors who boast a popular public image, due to favorable press coverage, can exercise control and influence far beyond the limited powers of their office.

Cecilia L. Ridgeway

Stanford University

Visiting Scholar

2016 to 2017

Ridgeway will investigate the ways that social status functions as a de facto system of inequality and how this system is related larger structures of inequality. She will analyze a broad range of empirical evidence to understand how status matters to people and how hierarchies are formed. She will also study how these processes help transform group differences based on power or resources into systems of inequality based on gender, race, and class.

Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz

Columbia University

Visiting Scholar

2003 to 2004

Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, professor of economics and education at Columbia University, will write a book that examines the changing demographics, socioeconomic status, and racial identity of the nearly 7 million Puerto Ricans living in the United States—both on the island and the mainland—during the 1990s. Rivera-Batiz will analyze the forces that contributed to the drop of migration to the mainland, the sharp drop in national Puerto Rican poverty levels and the persistence of poverty among Puerto Ricans living in New York City.

Steven O. Roberts

Stanford University

Visiting Scholar

2021 to 2022

Roberts will integrate research from the social sciences and humanities to identify the psychological bases of racism and suggest strategies for dismantling racial bias. His research will build on previous findings that the belief in white supremacy emerges early in childhood. He will work on three projects to advance the social scientific understanding of racism: a theoretical paper on descriptive-to-prescriptive reasoning, a theoretical paper on white supremacy, and three empirical papers on white supremacy in psychological science.

Belinda Robnett

University of California, Irvine

Visiting Scholar

2013 to 2014

Robnett will complete a book titled Surviving Success: Black Political Organizations in “Post-Racial” America, which will help to explain why organizations at the forefront of the Civil Rights successes of the 1960s, such as the NAACP and the SCLC, were unable to effect a comparable level of systemic change in the decades that followed. The book will contribute to a neglected area of black history, and expand our understanding of the factors that strengthen or weaken post-movement organization success.

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

Queens College, City University of New York

Visiting Scholar

2023 to 2024

Rodríguez-Planas will explore how low-income and minority urban college students have coped during the pandemic. She will draw on surveys with over 24,000 students, City University of New York academic records, and New York City COVID data to examine how the pandemic affected students’ academic performance, as well as their educational and labor market expectations and trust in the government and members of their community.

John Roemer

University of California, Davis

Visiting Scholar

1998 to 1999

John E. Roemer, professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, will expand on a theory of distributive justice aimed at creating equal access to social resources. In particular, Roemer will apply economic techniques to the problem of equalizing educational opportunities for American youth by investigating what allocation of the national education budget would be required. In a second project, Roemer will examine how political parties compete and maintain equilibrium in a democracy.

Thomas Romer

Princeton University

Visiting Scholar

2005 to 2006

Sean Corcoran, Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University-Sacramento, Thomas Romer, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Howard Rosenthal, Professor of Politics at New York University, form a working group that will construct a comprehensive time-series database with demographic, political, and financial information on American school districts. While at the Foundation, they will use information from this database to begin writing a book about the political economy of financing U.S.

Eva Rosen

Georgetown University

Visiting Scholar

2022 to 2023

Rosen (together with Philip ME Garboden) will co-author a book examining the supply-side dynamics of low-end rental housing markets in four cities. They will use over 150 semi-structured interviews with landlords and property managers, ethnographic observations, and administrative data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to better understand how low-end rentals work for poor tenants.

Harvey S. Rosen

Princeton University

Visiting Scholar

1996 to 1997

Harvey S. Rosen, professor of economics at Princeton University, examined data from the Panel Study on Income Dynamics and other sources for a study of the relation of entrepreneurship to income mobility. He completed the first draft of a paper in which he concludes that there is some merit to the notion that self-employment provides a way for low-income individuals to increase their incomes, although for higher income people, self employment often leads to downward movement in the earnings distribution. Working Papers:

Howard Rosenthal

New York University

Visiting Scholar

2005 to 2006

Sean Corcoran, Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University-Sacramento, Thomas Romer, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Howard Rosenthal, Professor of Politics at New York University, form a working group that will construct a comprehensive time-series database with demographic, political, and financial information on American school districts. While at the Foundation, they will use information from this database to begin writing a book about the political economy of financing U.S.

Howard Rosenthal

Princeton University

Visiting Scholar

2002 to 2003

Howard Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and professor of politics at Princeton University, will study the increase of income and wealth inequality in the United States since the 1970s and its effects on health and other outcomes. Rosenthal will analyze the political consequences of the vast increase in the number of households with high income and wealth levels over the past 50 years.

Wendy Roth

University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Scholar

2025 to 2026

Roth and Mary Campbell will examine how racial and ethnic identification change among multiracial individuals over time. They will investigate how patterns vary across racial and ethnic groups and will investigate the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics for predicting patterns of change. They will analyze data from the census, the American Community Survey, and Social Security records.

Bo Rothstein

Göteborg University

Visiting Scholar

1998 to 1999

Bo Rothstein, August Röhss professor of Political Science at Göteborg University, Sweden, will study the rise and fall of "the Swedish model," a unique political and economic system that for decades produced outstanding economic growth coupled with a generous welfare state. Rothstein illuminates the importance of trust in two key aspects of the Swedish model: stable alliances between unions and the ruling Social Democratic Party, and direct participation by major interest organizations in public policy formation.

Paul Rozin

University of Pennsylvania

Visiting Scholar

2001 to 2002

Paul Rozin, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence in the department of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, will complete a book, co-authored with Clark McCauley and Barry Schwartz, on the formation and maintenance of preferences and values.

Ariel Rubinstein

Tel Aviv University

Visiting Scholar

1996 to 1997

Ariel Rubinstein, professor of economics, Tel Aviv University and Princeton University, worked on a book, Modeling Bounded Rationality, and other topics in behavioral economics, including a joint project with Michelle Piccione on decision making with imperfect recall and an examination of game theoretical models with Martin Osborne. He also worked on another book, Language and Economics.

James Rule

State University of New York, Stony Brook

Visiting Scholar

1995 to 1996

James B. Rule, professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, completed the editing of Theory and Progress in Social Science, to be published by Cambridge University Press, and began work on a book dealing with the assimilation of computer technologies by more than 100 greater New York City private-sector firms. The book will examine the effects of computing on types and levels of employment, job surveillance and the quality of work, and the efficiency of organizations. Working Papers:

Rubén G. Rumbaut

University of California, Irvine

Visiting Scholar

2016 to 2017

Rumbaut and Cynthia Feliciano will work on a book that explores the socioeconomic, cultural, and political incorporation of the immigrant second generation, and how they completed their adult transitions during and after the Great Recession.

Rubén G. Rumbaut

Michigan State University

Visiting Scholar

1997 to 1998

Ruben G. Rumbaut professor of sociology at Michigan State University, prepared a book on children of immigrants that examines their efforts to participate successfully in American educational, social and economic life. Drawing upon major new research in San Diego and Miami, Rumbaut focused on the progress of Latin, Asian, and Caribbean youth.