National & International Affiliates
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Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Sociology
immigration, race and ethnicity, urban poverty, social inequality, public policy, Population Health
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University of California , Los Angeles
Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus; Research Professor, UCLA Faculty Associate, California Center for Population Research
stratification and mobility, demography, comparative and historical sociology
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Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Full-Time Researcher
religious change, social change, education and society
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Facebook Research
UX Researcher on Protect and Care
social organization of urban poverty neighborhoods, underground economies, street gangs
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University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Sociology; Associate Dean, Graduate Division
labor studies, work, social movements, comparative-historical sociology
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University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Sociology; Research Associate, Earl Warren Legal Institute; Researcher, Centre de sociologie europeenne (Paris)
incarnation, the penal state, race as a principle of social vision and division, comparative urban inequality and marginality, extreme social systems
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University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Economics; Hans Hufschmid Chair in Management
international economic integration and international political economy, causes and consequences of increasing economic integration, economic and political structure
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University of California, Los Angeles
Distinguished Professor of Sociology; Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration
international migration to the US, race and ethnicity
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor of Economics
economics perspectives on family and migration, labor supply, teen fertility trends, fertility expectations over the life cycle
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Columbia University
Fellow, Roosevelt Institute; Board Chair of the Center for Community Change; Host and Executive Producer of “Nerding Out”, MSNBC; Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs
race and ethnic politics, labor politics, urban politics, social movements and social science methodology
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Harvard University
John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology
immigration, inter-group relations, the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity
![Kim Weeden's picture Kim Weeden's picture](https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/person_pictures/picture-9451-1454629152.jpg)
Cornell University
Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of the Social Sciences, Director of the Center for the Study of Inequality
gender, labor markets, work and occupations
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Teachers College
Professor of Sociology and Education
educational policy, race and education, charter schools, school desegregation., school choice policy.
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Harvard University
Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard Divinity School, Department of African and African-American Studies; Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies Emeritus, Princeton University; Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary
race, philosophy of religion, cultural criticism
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Harvard University
Professor of Sociology; Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy; Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy; Faculty Chair, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management
labor markets, stratification, incarceration and inequality, demographic methods
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The University of Queensland
Professor of Sociology; Director of the Institute for Social Science Research; Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course
postindustrial inequalities, values and identities in postmodernity
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Urban Institute
Senior Fellow
poverty measurement, supplemental nutrition assistance program
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University of Washington, College of Education
Professor, History of Education; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
race, ideology, race- and class-based educational policy changes since 1950s, university campus movements
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Harvard University
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor; Director, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
welfare, youth achievement and inner city kids, urban poverty and family life.