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Albert H. Yoon
University of Toronto
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Albert H. Yoon, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, will write a series of articles illuminating the relationship between legal representation and social inequality in the United States and Canada. Yoon hypothesizes that vast disparities in the quality of legal representation impose not only private costs on individual litigants, but also considerable costs on society as a whole, exacerbating and even creating social inequality along a number of dimensions.
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, will write a book about child development in low-income immigrant families. Yoshikawa will employ three years of survey, observational, and qualitative data from a birth cohort drawn from three immigrant groups as well as one native-born group to address several related questions.
Kathryne Young
George Washington University
Visiting Scholar
2023 to 2024
Young will investigate common civil justice problems such as landlord-tenant disputes and consumer debt from the perspective of everyday people. Better understanding their “legal consciousness”—attitudes, beliefs, and understandings about law—will facilitate design of justice solutions that meet people where they are. Her mixed-methods research will draw on survey data from over 3600 U.S. adults as well as longitudinal interviews with over 100 people going through civil justice problems.
Caitlin Zaloom
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Zaloom will write a book that summarizes the key findings from a five-year research project on the intimate financial lives of American families. Her research will explore how debt, credit, and investment shape Americans’ pursuit of security, prosperity, and stability. She will also examine how families discuss the risks and trade-offs involved in using financial tools to pursue better education, housing, and retirement.
Julian E. Zelizer
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Zelizer will complete a book manuscript on how President Lyndon Johnson, congressional Democrats, and their supporters were able to achieve the Great Society legislation within three years. The book will highlight multiple political forces that produced this intense period of domestic policymaking.
Viviana A. Zelizer
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Zelizer will research how colleges and college students respond to everyday economic inequality on their campuses. Focusing on Princeton undergraduates, she will study the interactions among students of different socioeconomic backgrounds in order to observe how students negotiate money, campus work, and class differences. Zelizer will also investigate how the histories of student monetary transactions and labor practices at Princeton have helped shape the present-day campus economy.
James P. Ziliak
University of Kentucky
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Ziliak will investigate the declining response rates to earnings questions in the Current Population Survey (CPS) from 1998 to 2013. He will use an original dataset to link the CPS to the Social Security Administration’s Master Earning File in order to obtain the earnings information missing from the CPS. He will also assess how the drop in CPS responses affects our understanding of economic growth, the poverty rate, income inequality, and the effectiveness of the federal safety net.
Aristide Zolberg
The New School
Visiting Scholar
1999 to 2000
Aristide Zolberg, professor of political science and director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the New School for Social Research, will contribute to long-running debates on multiculturalism and the cultural incorporation of immigrants by focusing on the rise of Spanish as an increasingly "recognized" second language in the United States.