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Jacob Faber
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2020 to 2021
Faber will complete several articles about the expansion of the alternative financial services (AFS) industry over the past two decades. The dramatic growth of payday lenders, check cashers, pawnshops, and other AFS is concerning since such services tend to be more expensive than traditional banking services. He will use a combination of administrative, business, sociodemographic, and survey data to examine the individual, neighborhood, and metropolitan, drivers of AFS proliferation.
Henry Farber
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Henry Farber, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, will pursue three studies on: (1) the effect of the decline of unions in the economy on the wages of non-union workers; (2) strategic behavior in union representation elections; and (3) the labor supply of New York City taxi drivers. Most work on the decline of unions in the U.S. has focused on union workers. Most workers are not unionized, however, and Farber hypothesizes that the long-term decline of unions has had substantial effects on these workers as well.
Cynthia Feliciano
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Scholar
2016 to 2017
Feliciano and Rubén Rumbaut 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.
Catherine Fennell
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2012 to 2013
Fennell will complete a book that follows the transformation of a Chicago public housing complex into a mixed-income, racially diverse “new community.” She will also examine how legal arguments and public sentiments fixated on the decay of Chicago public housing have impacted its former residents’ pursuit of legal redress and political recognition.
Raquel Fernandez
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Raquel Fernandez, Professor of Economics at New York University, will explore the relationship between gender inequality, marital sorting, and the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Using a variety of U.S. and international data sets, she will examine whether and how improvements in the employment prospects for women affect their decision about if, when, and whom to marry.
Frank F. Furstenberg
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Frank Furstenberg, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will work on a book examining how U.S. policies relating to welfare, sex education, work, and marriage affect teenage childbearing rates, as well as what happens to teenagers who do get pregnant. He will argue in favor of adopting a public-health approach to managing teenage sexual initiation and moving away from an "abstinence only" policy.
Gary S. Fields
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Gary S. Fields, professor of labor economics and economics at Cornell University, prepared a book manuscript on Poverty, Inequality, Well-Being, and Economic Growth. He combined empirical evidence from developing and advanced countries with the latest theoretical methods to analyze the effects of economic development on poverty, labor market conditions, and economic well-being. Fields' interpretation of economic progress built on such questions as: Who benefits more from economic growth and why?
Gary Alan Fine
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Gary Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, will work on a project examining what the spread of rumors about terrorists and terrorism reveals about social trust within communities, and how this trust is solidified into norms of communication. Working with a list of rumors that he has compiled about immigration and terrorism over the last decade, Fine will develop a theory of how rumors impact community beliefs, norms, and trust.
Claude S. Fischer
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Claude S. Fischer, professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will work on a non-technical book summarizing what is known about whether and how the personal networks of Americans changed historically, particularly in the last generation or so. Fischer plans to analyze the networks’ sizes, compositions, structures, and intensities.
Susan T. Fiske
Princeton University
Visiting Scholar
2009 to 2010
Susan T. Fiske, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, will advance a project exploring envy upwards and contempt downwards: how people respond socially, cognitively, and neurally to people from low-status outgroups (such as undocumented immigrants, the homeless, welfare recipients, injection drug users) and to people from high-status outgroups (rich people, Asians, Jews, minority professionals, and career women).
Lori Flores
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
2020 to 2021
Flores will work on a book about how Americans gained an appetite, in tandem, for Latin American food and Latin American/Latinx food labor since the mid 20th century. Although Latin American food is much beloved, Latinx food workers—from farmworkers to restaurant workers to street vendors—experience discrimination, xenophobia, criminalization, invisibility, and exploitation. Flores will trace the history and treatment of Latinx workers (both citizen and migrant) in the Northeast region’s food industry, and their sociocultural impact on the region from 1940 to the present.
James R. Flynn
University of Otago
Visiting Scholar
2008 to 2009
William T. Dickens, Professor, Northeastern University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, James R. Flynn, Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Richard E. Nisbett, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, will form a working group to develop a multi-level model of intelligence that explains the role of genes and physiology along with the role of environment in making individuals intellectually able..
Nancy Folbre
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Visiting Scholar
2005 to 2006
Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will extend her previous estimates of the economic value of family work by comparing the time devoted to family care in four English-speaking countries and examining the amount of labor (both paid and unpaid) that Americans supply in caring for others. Folbre will parse data from several recent surveys on people’s incomes and their use of time to get a more accurate picture of the differences in standards of living between households with and without children.
Erica Gabrielle Foldy
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Tamara Buckley, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs, at Hunter College, and Erica Gabrielle Foldy, Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, form a working group that will bring the insights of both psychology and management to bear on fostering learning and effectiveness in culturally diverse teams. They theorize that acknowledging and engaging cultural differences facilitates team learning better than a “color-blind” approach.
Cybelle Fox
University of California, Berkeley
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Fox will write a book on the causes and consequences of the rise of restrictions on immigrants’ access to social welfare. She will compare three seminal moments of federal policymaking when the issue of non-citizens’ access to social assistance came to the fore: FDR’s New Deal, Nixon’s legal status restrictions, and Clinton’s welfare reforms.
Brittany Fox-Williams
Lehman College, City University of New York
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Fox-Williams will work on a book examining trust as an overlooked dimension of racial inequality in education. Her mixed-methods study draws on longitudinal data from the New York City Department of Education and 90 interviews conducted in NYC public high schools to investigate the racial dynamics of trust in schools and to identify strategies for fostering trusting school climates for racially minoritized youth.
Timothy Frye
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Frye will explore the conditions under which employers mobilize their workers during elections using administrative data and post-election surveys in nine countries. He will explore the causes, consequences and prevalence of this form of workplace mobilization
Paul Frymer
University of California, Santa Cruz
Visiting Scholar
2007 to 2008
Paul Frymer, Associate Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, will complete a book on the efforts by the U.S. government to racially integrate and diversify labor unions in the mid-twentieth century. Frymer acknowledges that the exponential increase in the numbers of African American union members between 1930 and 1980 was a significant civil rights accomplishment. But he argues that the federal government’s use of litigation to accomplish this goal played a major role in weakening the U.S.
Lee Ann Fujii
University of Toronto
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Fujii will investigate the process that drives people to join in brutal forms of violence against neighbors in their communities. Using data from intensive interviews and primary documents, Fujii will research the public display of violence in three contexts: the Bosnian War, the Rwandan genocide, and Jim Crow Maryland.
Joan H. Fujimura
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Fujimura will write a book exploring the role of race in recent biomedical genetics studies. She will analyze laboratory and institutional data from various sites to understand how genomics researchers are struggling to develop concepts of genetic history and ancestry that define medically important population differences without becoming entangled in socially constructed racial categories.