Work in Progress
Work in Progress is an ongoing RSF blog series that highlights some of the research of the current class of Visiting Scholars. The series began in 2013. Interviews are archived chronologically below.
2018–2019
Understanding and Documenting Internships Today
Carrie Shandra (SUNY–Stony Brook University)
Social Movements in the News
Edwin Amenta (University of California, Irvine)
2017–2018
Immigration Policy and Children at the Border
Katharine Donato (Georgetown University)
The Inequality Trap
Nathan Kelly (University of Tennessee)
How Campaign Donations Influence the Congressional Economic Agenda
Jana Morgan (University of Tennessee)
When Hate Speech Leads to Violence
Richard Ashby Wilson (University of Connecticut)
Who Should Pay for College?
Brian Powell (Indiana University)
How Magazines Helped Shape Asian American and Hispanic Identity in the U.S.
Dina Okamoto (Indiana University)
2016–2017
Rethinking Racial Health Disparities
James S. Jackson (University of Michigan)
The Partisan Brain
Jay Van Bavel (New York University)
Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act
Helen Levy (University of Michigan)
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
Greg Duncan (University of California, Irvine)
Institutions, Precarious Work, and Inequality
Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Long Run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Food Stamps
Hilary Hoynes (UC Berkeley)
Zombie Ideas and Moral Panics
Rubén G. Rumbaut (University of California, Irvine)
2015–2016
From Academic Research to National Education Policy
Prudence Carter (University of California, Berkeley)
What Causes Low Voter Turnout?
Jonathan Nagler (New York University)
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap in the U.S.
William Darity (Duke University)
How Tax Cuts Became Central to the Republican Party
Monica Prasad (Northwestern University)
Diversity is in the Eye of the Beholder
Cara Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
How Norms of Affluence on College Campuses Affect Inequality
Tali Mendelberg (Princeton University)
The Historical Roots of New York City’s Growing Tech Economy
Victor Nee (Cornell University)
How Survey Non-Responses Affect U.S. Poverty Rates and Understandings of Inequality
James Ziliak (University of Kentucky)
2014–2015
The Complex History of Public Education in the U.S.
Elizabeth Shermer (Loyola University, Chicago)
The “Neighborhood Gap” and Educational Achievement Disparities
Sean Reardon (Stanford University)
How Federal Drug Laws Shape Local Courts and Prison Sentencing
Mona Lynch (University of California, Irvine)
The Lens of Race
Ann Morning (New York University)
The Clash of Professional Autonomy and Regulatory Compliance
Susan Silbey (MIT)
Investigating the Networks that Supply Guns to Gangs
Philip J. Cook (Duke University)
Developing a Racial Mobility Perspective for the Social Sciences
Aliya Saperstein (Stanford University)
Quantal Response Equilibrium and the Limitations of Game Theory
Thomas Palfrey (California Institute of Technology)
Political Participation and the Cost of Abstention
Susan Stokes (Yale University)
Racial Passing in the U.S. and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century
Karl Jacoby (Columbia University)
The Role of Chinatown Bus Lines and Employment Agencies for New Immigrants
Zai Liang (SUNY Albany)
Political Party Identification Among Latino Immigrants
James McCann (Purdue University)
2013–2014
Nested Silences and the Household Economy
Caitlin Zaloom (New York University)
How Genetics Can Enrich the Way We Study Social Inequality
Dalton Conley (New York University)
Diversity, Admissions, and Merit in the Ivy League and Oxbridge
Natasha Warikoo (Harvard University)
Disaster Recovery and the Vietnamese Community in New Orleans
Mark VanLandingham (Tulane University)
Investigating the Link between Income Inequality and Marriage Rates
Andrew Cherlin (Johns Hopkins University)
Combating Implicit Racial Bias
Stacey Sinclair (Princeton University)
How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of the South
Doug McAdam (Stanford University)
Why Study Violence?
Lee Ann Fujii (University of Toronto)
The Limits of Self-Control and the Effects of Willpower Depletion
Roy Baumeister (Florida State University)
The Self-Sufficiency Theory of Money
Kathleen Vohs (University of Minnesota)