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John Hagan
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
John Hagan, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, will write a book on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). His study will include an analysis of the factors leading to the transformation of a social movement into a functioning legal institution. What effect, for example, did the political climate have on both the lag in global human rights enforcement since Nuremberg and on the new opportunities for enforcement arising at century's end?
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Peter A. Hall
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Hall will study growth regimes, or the social and economic policies implemented by governments that, in combination with the strategies deployed by firms, are used to foster economic growth. He will use cross-national electoral data and historical case studies to examine how different growth regimes in the United States and the other developed democracies arise and to explain why they have changed from the 1950s to present day.
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Lynne Haney
New York University
Visiting Scholar
2017 to 2018
Haney will study the relationship between mass incarceration and the enforcement of child support at the federal, state, and local levels. She will use an ethnographic study of child support courts in three states and interviews with 150 formerly incarcerated fathers to explore how both child support debt and ongoing contact with the criminal justice system contribute to cycles of disadvantage and shape their identities as fathers.
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Lingxin Hao
Johns Hopkins University
Visiting Scholar
2002 to 2003
Lingxin Hao, associate professor of sociology at The Johns Hopkins University, will undertake a project on the impact of welfare on the social mobility of immigrant parents and children. The shift in countries of origin from Europe to Asia and Latin America has contributed to lower educational and skill levels among recent immigrants and a greater need for public assistance on their part. Yet, as part of welfare reform, the federal government has sharply reduced the public safety net for immigrants.
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Kathryn Paige Harden
University of Texas at Austin
Visiting Scholar
2015 to 2016
Harden and Elliot M. Tucker-Drob will analyze data from the Texas Twin Project, a study of over 1,000 twins, to examine how genetic and social factors interact to shape child and adolescent development. Harden will focus on how biological and social determinants may lead to the early onset of puberty and sexual development among low-income adolescents. She will test whether stress associated with poverty can induce physiological changes that “override” genetic influences on the timing of puberty.
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Bradley L. Hardy
American University
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Hardy will investigate how historical racial segregation in different geographical areas of the U.S. has affected contemporary socioeconomic outcomes for racial minorities. By combining data on economic mobility from the Equality of Opportunity Project with new data on segregation between 1880 and 1940, he will analyze the extent to which long-standing racial disparities in wealth, income, and health outcomes have continued to shape intergenerational inequality over the long term.
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Fredrick C. Harris
University of Rochester
Visiting Scholar
1998 to 1999
Frederik C. Harris, assistant professor of political science at the University of Rochester, will compare strategies of collective action among non-white populations in the United States, Britain, and South Africa. Although these democratic societies share a history of racial exclusion, their minority populations have differed in how they employ racial solidarity and a shared sense of deprived status as a resource and political instrument to challenge socioeconomic inequities.
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Ran R. Hassin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Visiting Scholar
2010 to 2011
Hassin is part of a working group (with Alexander Todorov), which will use recent findings in cognitive neuroscience to better understand the significant role unconscious processes play in human decision-making. Individually, Hassin will focus on how unconscious states of mind associated with specific ideologies or beliefs trigger certain social behaviors.
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Victoria C. Hattam
The New School
Visiting Scholar
1997 to 1998
Victoria C. Hattam, associate professor and chair of the department of political science at the New School for Social Research, studied the emergence and growth of racism within organized labor in the late nineteenth century. Hattam focused on the American Federation of Labor's profound shift from biracial union organizing in the postbellum era to the adoption of its policies of racial exclusion by the turn of the century.
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Robert M. Hauser
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Scholar
2001 to 2002
Robert M. Hauser, the Vilas Research Professor of Sociology, Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will explore the relationship between the economic and social resources of families and the educational outcomes of their children. As part of the Foundation's social inequality project, the study assesses the overall distribution of completed schooling, key transitions in the schooling process, and the pace at which students pass through the educational system.
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Joseph Heathcott
The New School
Visiting Scholar
2024 to 2025
Heathcott will examine life in three urban communities in St. Louis, Detroit, and Philadelphia, all of which have suffered from neglect, disinvestment, concentrated poverty, and legacies of racial segregation. He will examine how residents mitigate poor conditions, repair damage, create new opportunities, knit together community, and assert their rights and interests in building a more just future.
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Douglas Heckathorn
Cornell University
Visiting Scholar
2004 to 2005
Douglas Heckathorn, Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, will work on a book describing the theoretical underpinnings, methods, and applications of respondent-driven sampling (RDS), a statistical method for researching hard to reach populations. The book will explore how RDS can be used to study the assimilation of immigrants in New York and New Jersey, their workplace integration, and the integration of their children into mainstream American society.
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Larry V. Hedges
Northwestern University
Visiting Scholar
2013 to 2014
Hedges will write a reference book on the design, analysis, and interpretation of randomized field experiments. He will consolidate more than a decade of experience in experimentation and discuss common problems in field experimentation that require adjustments to planned designs and analyses.
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Jen Heerwig
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Visiting Scholar
2018 to 2019
Heerwig will track the evolution of American corporate elites’ political preferences and behavior from 1980 to present day. She will analyze the extent to which these elites have influenced deregulation, the rollback of social welfare programs, and the reduction in income tax rates. She will also draw from a new longitudinal database that links corporate executives, directors, and board members to federal political donations to determine the extent to which individual contributions from corporate elites affect policy outcomes.
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Rachel Heiman
The New School
Visiting Scholar
2006 to 2007
Rachel Heiman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School, will write a book on the middle class paradox of the 1990s: the dramatic escalation of what defines the suburban American dream at the same time that the possibilities of achieving the dream diminished. Based on fieldwork in a suburban New Jersey town, the book will address class anxiety in suburban America.
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Larisa Heiphetz
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Heiphetz will study how adults and children, including the children of incarcerated parents, conceive of incarceration and incarcerated people. Using experimental and interview data, she will investigate the extent to which adults and children view incarceration as the result of an individual’s innate character, their choices and behaviors, or societal factors such as socioeconomic inequality. She will then study the consequences of these perceptions on people’s attitudes toward those who have been incarcerated and test interventions designed to reduce stigma against them.
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Jeffrey R. Henig
George Washington University
Visiting Scholar
2000 to 2001
Jeffrey R. Henig, professor of political science at George Washington University, will study the charter school movement as a case study of how for-profit and non-profit enterprises are taking on responsibilities formerly assigned to government. Charter schools blur the borders between public and private, but most of the thinking behind charter schools adopts a market model, assuming that charter schools will act like responsive commercial enterprises competing for customers.
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Diana Hernández
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2021 to 2022
Hernández will write a book exploring families’ struggles to afford household energy. She will focus on energy insecurity – the inability to adequately meet household energy needs – a problem facing one in three U.S. households. She will analyze 100 in-depth interviews conducted across ten sites in the first study to examine the challenges that households face in accessing and affording electricity, natural gas, and fuel oils. Hernández will study how this issue varies across regions, including both urban and rural settings and cold and warm weather climates. 
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Alexander Hertel-Fernandez
Columbia University
Visiting Scholar
2019 to 2020
Hertel-Fernandez will explore the consequences of right-to-work laws and other anti-union legislation passed in several states in recent decades. He will also draw from original surveys and field experiments to evaluate new strategies that unions might be able to implement to attract new members and regain clout given shifts in the economy and political climate.
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Eric D. Hilt
Wellesley College
Visiting Scholar
2011 to 2012
Hilt will write three papers examining the role of investment banks and other financial institutions in the U.S. economy from 1900-1925. He will analyze legislation enacted during this period as well as newly collected data on all NYSE-traded companies. Hilt will study the effect of ties between bankers and nonfinancial companies in order to understand the consequences of financial regulations intended to limit the power of bankers.