Search Fellows | Russell Sage Foundation

Mark Baldassare

Public Policy Institute of California

Visiting Researcher

Mark Baldassare is president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, where he holds the Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Public Policy. He is a leading expert on public opinion and survey methodology, and has directed the PPIC Statewide Survey since 1998. Before joining PPIC, he was a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of California, Irvine, where he held the Johnson Chair in Civic Governance.

Arielle Baskin-Sommers

Yale University

Visiting Researcher

Arielle Baskin-Sommers will design and begin implementation of an original procedural justice training program for correctional officers. Baskin-Sommers’ work builds on research that shows that incarcerated individuals are one of the most marginalized populations in the United States and prisons play a significant role in reproducing disadvantage, particularly through negative interactions between correctional officers and the incarcerated.

Ajay Chaudry

Visiting Researcher

Chaudry worked on a book analyzing policies for providing early childhood services to children and families. He extended the research from his 2004 RSF book Putting Children First, exploring the challenges faced by low-income single mothers while their children were growing up.

Angie Chung

State University of New York, Albany

Visiting Researcher

Angie Chung will write a book examining the rise of immigrant growth coalitions among ethnic entrepreneurs, political leaders, financiers, and auxiliary players who shape land use and redevelopment processes in globalizing cities. Based on fieldwork and interviews in Koreatown and Monterey Park, California, Chung will focus on how Korean and Chinese immigrant leaders have promoted their economic growth agenda in Los Angeles amidst suburbanization, political barriers, and economic recessions.

Andrei Cimpian

New York University

Visiting Researcher

Andrei Cimpian is Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. He will investigate the developmental origins of pervasive cultural stereotypes that link certain groups more than others (such as men more than women) with raw intellectual talent or “brilliance.”

Greg J. Duncan

University California, Irvine

Visiting Researcher

Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He was a visiting scholar at RSF during the 2016-2017 academic year and is co-editor of the RSF books Whither Opportunity?, For Better and for Worse, Neighborhood Poverty Volume 1 and Volume 2, Consequences of Growing Up Poor, co-author of the RSF book Higher Ground, and the recipient of multiple grants from the foundation.

Gary Alan Fine

Northwestern University

Visiting Researcher

Fine will draft a book and several articles exploring the mobilization of older citizens for social justice. Drawing on research on aging and gerontology and based on extensive ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews, Fine’s project argues that the structural and cultural position of the elderly produces a distinctive form of organizing, creating resistance based on identity and experience.

Rowena Gray

University of California, Merced

Visiting Researcher

Rowena Gray is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Merced. She will examine the historical housing market in New York City, documenting the price and quality of housing between 1880 and 1910, and analyzing how housing and neighborhoods changed as immigrants arrived. She will also study the impact of immigration on crime in 30 U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 by analyzing data from police records and other archival sources.

Steven Greenhouse

The New York Times

Visiting Researcher

Greenhouse is labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times. At RSF he worked on a book on the future of the American worker, exploring the decline of labor unions, the growth of alternative, non-union worker advocacy groups, and policies designed to improve the labor market outcome of workers.

Ran R. Hassin

Columbia University

Visiting Researcher

Ran Hassin will advance research on the diversity illusion phenomenon – people’s tendency to literally see and remember more diversity than there is in reality. He will complete current projects and write a paper on blindness to an extreme lack of diversity. He will also begin planning new lines of research.

Philip Kasinitz

City University of New York

Visiting Researcher

Kasinitz is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He will work on a book with RSF author and former board chair Mary Waters (Harvard University) that explores the changing landscape of racial and ethnic stratification in American society.

Shamus Khan

Columbia University

Visiting Researcher

Khan will write a book, Exceptional: The Astors, Elite New York, and the Story of American Equality, that traces the history of American inequality from the 1790s to 2006 by focusing on the position and experiences of the elite in New York City.

Robert Kuttner

American Prospect

Visiting Researcher

Kuttner is the founder and co-editor of the American Prospect. At RSF he worked on a book assessing how globalization has complicated the project of managing capitalism and even affected democracy itself. He investigated the extent to which globalization, technology, cultural shifts, and domestic policies have contributed to growing wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and other countries.

Mona Lynch

University of California, Irvine

Visiting Researcher

Mona Lynch will draw on video-recorded deliberations data from two large-scale mock jury studies that test how the race of defendants and individual jurors and jury group racial characteristics interact in predicting verdicts in a drug conspiracy case. Both studies resulted in an unexpected finding: mock jurors became significantly less supportive of a guilty verdict for a Black defendant charged in a federal drug conspiracy case, relative to a white defendant, after small group deliberations.

Jane Mansbridge

Visiting Researcher

Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Helen Marrow

Tufts University

Visiting Researcher

Helen Marrow is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. She will collaborate with incoming visiting scholars Dina Okamoto (Indiana University) and Linda Tropp (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and RSF trustee Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania) on a book examining immigrant-native relations.

Mignon R. Moore

Barnard College

Visiting Researcher

Mignon R. Moore is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology at Barnard College. She will work on a book analyzing oral histories and archival materials to chart the development of sexual community among working- and middle-class Black women who were migrants, children of migrants, or those already living in northern cities during the second Great Migration. Moore seeks to recover and engage aspects of life and politics that are seldom included in African American histories, LGBTQ histories, and women’s labor histories.

Daniel S. Nagin

Carnegie Mellon University

Visiting Researcher

Nagin is Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. At RSF he studied how the experience of imprisonment affected rates of recidivism among offenders, using new methods to analyze merged data from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania State Police.

Wendy Roth

University of British Columbia

Visiting Researcher

Wendy Roth is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, focusing on race, ethnicity, and immigration, with substantive interests in Latin America, transnational processes, multiracial populations and identities, and intersections of race and genomics.

Rosemary Taylor

Tufts University

Visiting Researcher

2018 to 2019

Rosemary Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology and Community Health at Tufts University. Drawing upon extensive archival material and interviews, she will develop a new analytical perspective on how governments cope with risk, focusing on the process whereby scientific judgments are generated and integrated into policy-making.