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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.
Caitlin Zaloom
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2026 to 2027
Zaloom will examine how U.S. middle-class families organize their financial lives across generations, from early adulthood through retirement. Using ethnographic interviews and historical research, Zaloom will analyze how families use debt, savings, insurance, and long-term planning in ways that reshape their relationships and obligations. She will work on a book manuscript arguing that financial institutions and public policies depend on intergenerational support while placing moral and behavioral pressures on the families that rely on them.
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.