The foundation is pleased to welcome the incoming class of 2019-2020 visiting scholars (listed below), along with Margaret Olivia Sage scholars Greg Duncan, Christopher Jencks, Jane Mansbridge, and Mary Waters, visiting researcher Andrew Cherlin, and visiting journalists Sylvia A. Harvey, Jude Joffee-Block, and Mosi Secret.

RSF visiting scholars, researchers, and journalists pursue their writing and research at the foundation’s headquarters in New York City. Visiting scholars conduct research in areas of programmatic interest to the foundation. Among the subjects of the visitors’ research are: immigration, race and diversity, unions, income inequality, incarceration, and neighborhood violence. The 19 visiting scholars for 2019-2020 are:

• Sofya Aptekar (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
• Marisa Chappell (Oregon State University)
• Frank Dobbin (Harvard University)
• Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
• Larisa Heiphetz (Columbia University)
• Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Columbia University)
• Amy Hsin (Queens College, CUNY)
• Onoso Imoagene (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
• Shinobu Kitayama (University of Michigan)
• Eric Knowles (New York University)
• Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
• Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)
• Monica McDermott (Arizona State University)
• Lisa Sun-Hee Park (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Sunita Sah (Cornell University)
• Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University)
• Miriam Ticktin (New School for Social Research)
• Kristin Turney (University of California, Irvine)
• Abigail Weitzman (University of Texas at Austin)

Read more about the visiting scholars' projects.