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March 2026 News & Events
A New Fielding of the American Voices Project
The American Voices Project (AVP) – the country’s first omnibus immersive-interviewing study – will return to the field in late 2026. As part of an innovative social health project led by CPI affiliate David Rehkopf (Director, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences). The AVP will be partnering with NORC to understand how a representative sample of Americans are faring. This new AVP fielding – which again features long-form immersive conversations -- will focus on the social, physical, and mental health of Americans in this critical moment in history.
Summer on the Farm? CPI is hiring!
The CPI will be hiring Stanford undergraduates for full-time (in-person only) research fellowships this summer. If you are interested, please send a short statement and your CV to Laura, lfsomers@stanford.edu.
Visiting Poverty Scholars
The Institute for Research on Poverty is calling for applications for its Visiting Poverty Scholars Program. Applicants must be based in the U.S., hold a Ph.D., and come from an economically disadvantaged background. The winning applicant can choose to visit the Institute for Research on Poverty at the UW-Madison or any member of the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers … including our own Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality! The deadline to apply is Friday, April 3, 2026.
Propose a Topic!
The American Academy of Political and Social Science welcomes proposals for future volumes of The ANNALS. The proposals should address key challenges in public policy from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The Profile Series ... dedicated to learning more about leading inequality scholars
In this month’s newsletter, we’re pleased to highlight Matthew Clair (Assistant Professor, Stanford Department of Sociology and, by courtesy, the Law School). Although Matt’s a special scholar in oh-so-many ways, it’s especially notable that he’s one of those rare double threats, someone who’s not just contributing to a basic science of inequality but also builds interventions to reduce inequality. In one of these interventions, Matt partnered with the public defender’s office in San Jose to create a system navigator program that assigns clients to advocates who help with negotiating pretrial conditions, engaging with lawyers, and connecting to social services. The resulting assessment, funded by Arnold Ventures, shows that navigators have real payoff.