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Greg J. Duncan
University of California, Irvine
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Greg J. Duncan
University of California, Irvine
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Thomas C. Holt
University of Chicago
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Thomas C. Holt is the James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. His research compares the experiences of people in the African diaspora, particularly those living in the Caribbean and the United States. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Christopher Jencks
Harvard University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Christopher Jencks is Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard University. He was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (1991–1992) and a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (1963–1967). He is a member of the editorial board of the American Prospect and the author or co-author of several books, including The Academic Revolution (1968), Rethinking Social Policy (1992), The Homeless (1994), and The Black-White Test Score Gap (1998).
Ira Katznelson
Columbia University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. He is the former chair of the RSF Board of Trustees and co-editor of the RSF book Preferences and Situations (2007). He is president of the Social Science Research Council and has also served as president of the American Political Science Association and president of the Social Science History Association.
Jane Mansbridge
Harvard University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Jane Mansbridge is the Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University and a former visiting researcher at RSF. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA. She has served as president of the American Political Science Association and is the the recipient of the 2018 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
Hazel Rose Markus
Stanford University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Hazel Rose Markus is Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and the the co-director of the Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions (SPARQ) center at Stanford University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Guggenheim Fellow.
Alejandro Portes
Princeton University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Princeton University, and Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami. He is the author of 250 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology. He has published 30 books and special issues.
Margaret Beale Spencer
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Margaret Beale Spencer is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She developed the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory (P-VEST), a framework that examines resiliency, identity, and competence formation primarily in youths of color. Her Urban Resiliency Initiative emphasizes educational contexts, interrogates neighborhood policing encounters, and seeks to reduce vulnerability and increased resiliency.
Claude Steele
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Claude M. Steele is the Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. He is a former member of RSF’s board of trustees and was chair of the board from 2017 to 2020.
Richard H. Thaler
University of Chicago
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Richard Thaler is a former RSF trustee and a member of the foundation’s Behavioral Economics Roundtable. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Marta Tienda
Princeton University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
Marta Tienda is Maurice P. During ’22 Professor of Demographic Studies and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She was a board member of Russell Sage Foundation from 1992–2001, and currently serves as a trustee of the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland, and the White House Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
William Julius Wilson
Harvard University
Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He served on the board of the Russell Sage Foundation from 1988–1998, and as chair from 1993–1996. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education and the Institute of Medicine. He has served as president of the American Sociological Association, and was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow.