Visiting Researchers Program
On an occasional basis, the Foundation has one or two available office spaces and considers applications for short-term fellowships by scholars who are conducting research relevant to the Foundation’s priority areas. Visiting Researchers are provided with an office at the Foundation, computers and software, and library access. Applicants who reside outside of the greater New York City area may be provided with a partially-subsidized apartment near RSF, if available.
Meet Our Visiting Researchers
Edwin Amenta
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…
Adam Berinsky
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…
Jason Brent
Jason Brent will work on a book examining the now largely forgotten effort at mass economic education to improve American’s understanding of the U.S. economy by the American Economic Association (AEA) in the 1960s. Brent will work on three chapters covering the AEA’s review of textbooks during political pressure campaigns…
Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker will work on a book that brings together literatures on populism, technocracy, digital governance, and digital infrastructures. The premise of the book is that digital infrastructures, including increasingly powerful forms of generative and agentic AI, are transforming politics and governance in fundamental…
Jennifer Eberhardt
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…
Ingrid Ellen
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 (…
Zoltan Hajnal
Zoltan Hajnal will work on a series of articles and a book investigating whether changing the timing of local elections impacts policy and, ultimately, reduces economic inequality. At different times over the past decade, six states have shifted from off-cycle local elections, where the only items on the ballot are…
Colleen Heflin
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…
Hilary Hoynes
Hilary Hoynes will work on a series of papers examining the effects of welfare reform in the United States on children’s long-term social and economic outcomes. She will revisit five randomized experiments conducted by MDRC in the years leading up to the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. In…
Judith Levine
Judith Levine will work on a book examining how college seniors transition to employment. Drawing on 280 interviews with over one hundred college seniors at an urban university in the Northeast, Levine will compare the experiences of first-generation and continuing-generation college students. She will also examine how the…
Daniel S. Nagin
Daniel Nagin will work on a book that examines bystander intervention and decision-making. He will integrate research on “reactive guardianship,” in which bystanders intervene in crimes in progress, and “proactive guardianship,” in which potential offenders are deterred from attempting a crime due to the risk of bystander…
Francesca Polletta
Francesca Polletta will work on three projects investigating the cultural impacts of social movements. The first project will investigate how news coverage of the feminist movement impacted women’s beliefs about gender. The second project will examine how popular women’s magazines discussed the women’s liberation movement…
Jon Tebes
Jon Tebes will work on a project that examines how alternate forms of policing affect long-term outcomes of teenage residents, including educational attainment, arrests and incarceration, and employment and earnings. He will leverage two policy reforms that fundamentally altered teenagers’ exposure to neighborhood policing…
Jane Waldfogel
Jane Waldfogel will work on a paper building upon her RSF book Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America’s Future. Child Benefits looks at the impact of universal child benefits on family expenditures, fertility, parental employment, child poverty, and long-term health and wellbeing and makes a compelling case for…
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Visiting Researcher positions are available for visits of up to five months as space permits and do not come with any Foundation financial support.
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