Several RSF authors, former visiting scholars, and grantees are among the thirty-five recipients of 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowships. They include Christopher Bail (Duke University), Rucker Johnson (University of California, Berkeley), Nathan Kelly (University of Tennessee), Diana Mutz (University of Pennsylvania), Sean Reardon (Stanford University), and Emily Ryo (University of Southern California).

Christopher Bail is co-organizer of RSF’s summer institute in computational social science. Rucker Johnson was a visiting scholar in 2011-2012 and studied the consequences of school desegregation and school quality on adult educational attainment, earnings, incarceration, and health status. Nathan Kelly will be a visiting scholar at the foundation in 2017-2018 and will study the relationship between political and economic inequality. Diana Mutz is co-author of The Obama Effect (2014), which tracked the decline of white racial prejudice toward blacks during the Obama campaign. Sean Reardon was a visiting scholar in 2014-2015 and studied patterns in racial and socioeconomic academic achievement gaps in the U.S. Emily Ryo is the recipient of a recent RSF award to study undocumented immigrants’ experiences with the U.S. legal system.

Carnegie fellows are selected annually and granted up to $200,000 in funding for research and writing in the social sciences and humanities. Read the Carnegie Corporation press release.