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Maria Abascal
New York University
Visiting Researcher
Maria Abascal will write up the results of four studies that examine how Americans classify themselves and others in terms of race/ethnicity and the consequences of these classifications for racial/ethnic inequality. The first two projects, which draw on nationally representative surveys, explore which people are likely to be classified by others as people of color or as Latino. The third project investigates whether people from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to be classified as White during traffic stops.
Adam Berinsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Researcher
Adam Berinsky will work on a project examining interventions to stop or slow the spread of political misinformation. Berinsky will test the efficacy of existing approaches to combatting the spread of misinformation, such as having unlikely sources correct falsehoods. He will also examine and develop new interactive and scalable interventions to slow the spread of misinformation by leveraging advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Edwin Amenta
University of California, Irvine
Visiting Researcher
Edwin Amenta will work on projects examining the impact of news coverage on social movements and public opinion. He will investigate which movements and movement organizations have been covered by the news the most, when they made the news, and how coverage has changed over the last century. He will also explore how movements are covered by the news and the factors that influence whether social movement organizations receive positive or negative news coverage, including the organization’s demands and the overall political environment.
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.
Rich Benjamin
Independent Journalist
Visiting Researcher
Rich Benjamin will work on a book investigating how White anxieties about White demographic decline, both real and perceived, shape economic, political, and racial inequality in the United States. His book will reveal how seemingly race-neutral issues such a fiscal policy and the social safety net are defined by racial anxiety over perceived White decline. More specifically, the project will illuminate how White status threat creates opposition to, or support for, presumably “universalist” economic policies such as investment in universal preschool and increasing the federal minimum wage.
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.
Andrew J. Cherlin
Johns Hopkins University
Visiting Researcher
Andrew J. Cherlin is the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. In an effort to examine the current state of the white and black working classes, Cherlin will write up findings from a recent study of white and black former workers at a now-shuttered Baltimore steel plant and their adult children.
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.
Jennifer Eberhardt
Stanford University
Visiting Researcher
Jennifer Eberhardt will write articles drawing on police body-worn camera footage to examine police interactions with the public during traffic stops. Using large language models and related processing tools, Eberhardt will compare how language used by police varies during traffic stops in areas with and without a history of redlining.
Ingrid Ellen
New York University
Visiting Researcher
Ingrid Ellen will work on a book examining neighborhood policies in the United States. She will focus on how neighborhood policies have weighed the preferences of incumbent residents against the interests of potential future residents and broader societal goals—tensions that can often be seen across the country in NIMBY (not in my backyard) versus YIMBY (yes in my backyard) debates. Ellen will evaluate neighborhood policy initiatives from the 1910s through the 21st century.
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.
Colleen Heflin
Syracuse University
Visiting Researcher
Colleen Heflin will work on a project examining how administrative burdens influence participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Helfin will examine whether the physical presence requirements for WIC enrollment support, rather than burden, program participants. She will draw on data on program uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the federal government allowed localities to waive physical presence requirements in order to minimize the risk of COVID-19 spread.
Annika Hinze
Fordham University
Visiting Researcher
Annika Hinze will work on a project using “ambos Nogales” – sister towns Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, USA which sit across from each other on the U.S.-Mexico border – as a case study for the social, political, and local impact of U.S. border fortification policies. She will examine everyday practices that resist, rework, and/or reproduce boundaries between individuals, communities, and countries along the border.
Michael Jones-Correa
University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Researcher
Michael Jones-Correa is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught previously at Harvard and at Cornell, where he served as the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government.