Scholars & Their Research

ackert.elizabeth's picture
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Children & Families
 
alba.richard's picture
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Expertise: Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
albelda.randy's picture
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women, Children & Families
 
allard.scott's picture
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Cities and Regions
 
almeling.rene's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Expertise: Health Care Reform, Reproductive Health, Science & Technology, Women
 
altman.nancy's picture
Co-Director, Social Security Works
Expertise: Social Security, Aging Society
 
aminzade.ronald's picture
Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, International Development, Higher Education, Social Movements
 
ananat.elizabeth's picture
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Housing, Women, Children & Families
 
anglin.ashley's picture
PhD Student in Community and Cultural Psychology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, K-12 Education, Civic Engagement, Children & Families
 
appelbaum.eileen's picture
Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Expertise: Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Housing
 
barkan.steven's picture
Professor of Sociology, University of Maine
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
 
beckett.katherine's picture
Professor, Law, Societies & Justice Program, and Department of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
 
beckwith.karen's picture
Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
Expertise: Election 2012, Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Women, Voters and Voter Participation
 
blackstone.amy's picture
Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Maine
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Aging Society, Civic Engagement, Women
 
blocher.joseph's picture
Associate Professor of Law, Duke Law School
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Gun Control, Courts & Court Decisions
 
bloemraad.irene's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Civic Engagement, Voters and Voter Participation
 
borstelmann.thomas's picture
Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Distinguished Professor of Modern World History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, U.S. Foreign Policy, Social Movements
 
brown.susan's picture
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, National Center for Family & Marriage Research, Bowling Green State University
Expertise: Aging Society, Family Policies, Women, Children & Families
 
bush.sarah's picture
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Expertise: U.S. Foreign Policy, Policies in Other Nations, Women
 
butler.sandra's picture
Professor of Social Work and Master of Social Work Coordinator at School of Social Work, University of Maine
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Aging Society, Women
 
camp.bayliss's picture
Research Manager (Driver Competency and Safety Section) at California Department of Motor Vehicles, and Lecturer in Sociology at California State University - Sacramento
Expertise: Aging Society, Science & Technology, LGBT Issues
 
castaneda.ernesto's picture
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Civic Engagement
 
chandler.susan's picture
Director, Public Policy Center, and Professor of Public Administration, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Expertise: Antipoverty Policy, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Women, Children & Families
 
chesney-lind.meda's picture
Professor of Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Women
 
cook.philip's picture
ITT/Sanford Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Sociology, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, School Reform, Criminal Justice, Gun Control
 
crowley.jocelyn's picture
Professor of Public Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Family Policies, Social Movements, Women, Children & Families
 
danziger.sheldon's picture
H.J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and Director, National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women
 
deprez.luisa's picture
Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies, and Faculty Affiliate at the Muskie School of Public Policy, University of Southern Maine, Portland
Expertise: Antipoverty Policy, Higher Education, Media and Public Opinion, Women
 
dolliver.diana's picture
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Cybercrime, University of Alabama
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Policies in Other Nations, Science & Technology
 
edin.kathryn's picture
Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy, Housing, Women
 
fennelly.katherine's picture
Professor of Public Affairs, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
ferree.myra's picture
Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expertise: Media and Public Opinion, Women, Children & Families
 
fitzgerald.david's picture
Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
fortner.michael's picture
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Camden
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions, State & Local Government
 
fox.cybelle's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Antipoverty Policy
 
fussell.elizabeth's picture
Professor of Sociology, Washington State University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Cities and Regions, Housing, Women, Disaster & Emergency
 
gell-redman.micah's picture
PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Health Care Delivery, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Government Agencies
 
gilens.martin's picture
Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy, Media and Public Opinion
 
glover.robert's picture
Honors Preceptor in Political Science, University of Maine
Expertise: Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Civic Engagement, State & Local Government
 
goss.kristin's picture
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise: Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Women, Gun Control
 
green.joanne's picture
Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University
Expertise: Aging Society, Civic Engagement, Women, Children & Families
 
hajnal.zoltan's picture
Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Voters and Voter Participation, State & Local Government
 
halfmann.drew's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Health Care Reform, Reproductive Health, Social Movements
 
hartmann.douglas's picture
Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Media and Public Opinion
 
heyman.josiah's picture
Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Texas at El Paso
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
htun.mala's picture
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Policies in Other Nations, Women
 
hunter.marcus's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Cities and Regions
 
jimenez.tomas's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
joffe.carole's picture
Professor of Sociology, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
Expertise: Health Care Reform, Women
 
johansen.morgen's picture
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Health Care Reform, State & Local Government
 
katznelson.ira's picture
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University; President, Social Science Research Council
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Public Sector Reforms
 
kaye.len's picture
Professor of Social Work, University of Maine School of Social Work and Director, University of Maine Center on Aging, University of Maine
Expertise: Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery, Aging Society, Civic Engagement, Mental Health
 
kingson.eric's picture
Professor of Social Work, Syracuse University, and Founding Co-director, Social Security Works
Expertise: Social Security, Aging Society
 
kirk.david's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Research Associate of the Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
 
layzer.judith's picture
Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, Department of Urban Studies, MIT
Expertise: Environment, Climate Change Policies & Politics, Cities and Regions
 
lee.taeku's picture
Professor of Political Science and Law, and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Media and Public Opinion, Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Voters and Voter Participation
 
lee.hedwig's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery, Antipoverty Policy
 
levan.carrie's picture
PhD student in Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation
 
liu.dongxiao's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
Expertise: International Development, Policies in Other Nations, Social Movements, Women
 
lockhart.charles's picture
Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Health Care Delivery, Aging Society
 
mansbridge.jane's picture
Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School; President-Elect of American Political Science Association
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Women
 
marrow.helen's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies, Tufts University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Health Care Reform, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
massey.douglas's picture
Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Higher Education
 
mccall.leslie's picture
Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Media and Public Opinion, Women
 
milkman.ruth's picture
Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Women
 
miller.lynne's picture
Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Southern Maine
Expertise: School Reform, Higher Education, Women
 
moskowitz.rachel's picture
PhD Student in Political Science, Northwestern University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Media and Public Opinion, Civic Engagement, Voters and Voter Participation
 
murphy.laura's picture
Assistant Professor of English and Director of African and African American Studies, Loyola University New Orleans
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Policies in Other Nations, Women
 
orloff.ann's picture
Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern University
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Antipoverty Policy, Women
 
owens.michaelleo's picture
Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions, Religion, State & Local Government
 
papachristos.andrew's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Gun Control
 
parker.christopher's picture
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Media and Public Opinion, Social Movements
 
percheski.christine's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
Expertise: Health Care Reform, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women
 
pettit.becky's picture
Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Women
 
polivka.larry's picture
Executive Director of the Claude Pepper Center, and Scholar in Residence of The Claude Pepper Foundation, Inc., Florida State University
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Health Care Delivery, Aging Society
 
posick.chad's picture
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia Southern University
Expertise: Criminal Justice
 
quinn.sarah's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise: Economic Growth & Innovation, Public Budgets and Taxes, Housing
 
rapaport.elizabeth's picture
Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of New Mexico School of Law
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Aging Society, Women, Courts & Court Decisions
 
reingold.beth's picture
Associate Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Civic Engagement, Women
 
rhodes.jean's picture
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise: Environment, Cities and Regions, Women, Disaster & Emergency, Children & Families
 
ridgeway.cecilia's picture
Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Stanford University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Women
 
robertson.david's picture
Curator’s Teaching Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Expertise: Election 2012, Jobs and Workers, Cities and Regions, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
 
rocque.michael's picture
Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Maine, and Director of Correctional Habilitation, Maine Department of Corrections
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Criminal Justice, Children & Families
 
rosenfeld.jake's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Voters and Voter Participation
 
ross.flynn's picture
Associate Professor of Teacher Education; Campus Liaison, Woodrow Wilson Fellowships; and Faculty Coordinator, Newcomer Extended Teach Education Program, University of Maine
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Adult Training Programs
 
sanbonmatsu.kira's picture
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Media and Public Opinion, Women, Voters and Voter Participation
 
schrank.andrew's picture
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of New Mexico
Expertise: Economic Growth & Innovation, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
schreiber.ronnee's picture
Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
Expertise: Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Women
 
scott.john's picture
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Aging Society, Employer Benefits
 
shannon.sarah's picture
PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Criminal Justice, Antipoverty Policy
 
sidhu.dawinder's picture
Assistant Professor of Law and Regents’ Lecturer, University of New Mexico School of Law
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Security & Intelligence, Religion
 
sierra-arevalo.michael's picture
PhD Student in Sociology and Graduate Policy Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Cities and Regions, Gun Control
 
skidmore.max's picture
University of Missouri Curators’ Professor of Political Science and Thomas Jefferson Fellow, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Antipoverty Policy, Aging Society
 
skrentny.john's picture
Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, and Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
 
smith.michael's picture
Distinguished Research Professor of Community Studies & Development, University of California, Davis
Expertise: Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
 
soss.joe's picture
Professor of Public Service, Political Science and Sociology, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
 
strolovitch.dara's picture
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy, Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Women
 
swanstrom.todd's picture
Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Expertise: Cities and Regions, Civic Engagement
 
swartz.katherine's picture
Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery, Aging Society
 
swisher.raymond's picture
Associate Professor of Sociology, Bowling Green State University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Antipoverty Policy, Family Policies, Mental Health, Children & Families
 
uggen.christopher's picture
Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Expertise: Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers, Media and Public Opinion, Voters and Voter Participation
 
valelly.richard's picture
Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College
Expertise: Election 2012, Race and Ethnicity, Voters and Voter Participation, LGBT Issues
 
veghte.benjamin's picture
Research Director, Social Security Works
Expertise: Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Aging Society
 
walker.margath's picture
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Louisville
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions
 
walsh.katherine's picture
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expertise: Cities and Regions, Media and Public Opinion, Voters and Voter Participation
 
waters.mary's picture
M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Children & Families
 
watkins-hayes.celeste's picture
Associate Professor, Sociology and African American Studies, Chair, Department of African American Studies, and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Antipoverty Policy
 
weaver.vesla's picture
Assistant Professor of Political Science and African-American Studies; Associate at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
 
weiner.melissa's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, School Reform, Family Policies, Social Movements
 
weir.margaret's picture
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Inequality & the Middle Class, Antipoverty Policy, Cities and Regions
 
weldon.laurel's picture
Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Purdue University
Expertise: Antipoverty Policy, Policies in Other Nations, Civic Engagement, Social Movements, Women
 
wenger.jeffrey's picture
Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration & Policy, University of Georgia
Expertise: Jobs and Workers, Unemployment Insurance, Aging Society
 
western.bruce's picture
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers
 
wildeman.christopher's picture
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Resident Fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Antipoverty Policy
 
willging.cathleen's picture
Senior Research Scientist, Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, Albuquerque, NM
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Health Care Reform, Women
 
wolf.douglas's picture
Professor of Aging Studies, Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, and Director, Center for Aging and Policy Studies, Syracuse University
Expertise: Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Health Care Delivery, Aging Society
 
wong.tom's picture
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Social Movements
 
wriggins.jennifer's picture
Sumner T. Bernstein Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research, University of Maine School of Law
Expertise: Race and Ethnicity, Health Care Reform, Health Care Delivery, Women