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Abigail Saguy is the author of RSF book Gender Flashpoints: The Power of Dialogue. In Gender Flashpoints, Saguy gets to the root of major disagreements about gender, including disagreements about participation in women’s sports, gender and parenting, gender-neutral restrooms, and more.Saguy is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Gender Studies. She is a former RSF visiting scholar.Q. What motivated you to write…

         Listen to the interview Corey M. Abramson, Max Besbris, James Chu, Priya Fielding-Singh, David B. Grusky, Jessica Halliday Hardie, Lisa Hummel, Theresa Rocha Beardall, Elizabeth Talbert, Shira Zilberstein are contributors to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue, “Building an Open Qualitative Science,” edited by Kathryn J. Edin (Princeton University), Corey D. Fields (Georgetown University), David…

           Listen to Part 1 of the interview Listen to Part 2 of the interview  Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks are the authors of RSF book Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration. In Reunited, they explain the reasons for Central American youth migration, describe the journey, and document how minors experienced separation from their families and their subsequent reunification. The interview has been edited…

        Listen to Part 1 of the interview  Listen to Part 2 of the interview  Listen to Part 3 of the interview  Irene Browne the author of the RSF book Precarious Privilege: Race and the Middle-Class Immigrant Experience. In Precarious Privilege, Browne examines how first-generation, middle-class Mexican and Dominican immigrants in Atlanta respond to the stigmatizing assumption that they are undocumented, working-class Mexicans.Browne is…

Daniel Galvin is the author of the RSF book Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights. In Alt-Labor and the Politics of Workers’ Rights, Galvin details why alt-labor groups—small, under-resourced, nonprofit groups that have emerged across the U.S. to organize and support marginalized workers—have turned to policy and politics, provides compelling insights into the dilemmas the groups face, and illuminates how their efforts have both invigorated and complicated the American labor…

Tracie McMillan is an independent, award-winning journalist and author. She was an RSF visiting journalist in spring 2022. Her essays and journalism have been published in many publications including the New York Times, Mother Jones, Harper’s, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic. Her first book, The American Way of Eating, won the Books for a Better Life Award and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism. In a new interview with the foundation, McMillan discusses…

In this interview, contributors to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences issue “Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children,” discuss variation in the consequences of disruption in early life. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Dani Carrillo is the author of the RSF book When Care is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net. In When Care is Conditional Carrillo examines how the conditionality of the U.S. safety net impacts undocumented immigrants. In a new interview, Carrillo discusses her findings.

Adam Berinsky is a former RSF visiting scholar and the author of Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It. In Political Rumors Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them. In a new interview, Berinsky discusses his findings.

In a new interview with the Russell Sage Foundation, RSF author Colin Gordon discusses his book Patchwork Apartheid.