Ann Tickamyer

I'm the Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at the College of Agriculture Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University.

My research interests focus on gender and development, s

Randy Shaw

Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw's latest book is Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live i

Sylvie Laurent

Sylvie Laurent teaches American studies at Sciences Po in Paris and is the author of King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality.

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Jonathan Morduch

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

Morduch's research focuses on finance, poverty, and inequa

Anthony Harkins

My current research extends my exploration of postwar urban and rural images and identities and my focus on popular culture as an important site of struggle over social power. This new project expl

Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman is a Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP. His research focuses on affordable housing, gentrification, ethnic and racial stratification in housing markets, and th

Sigal R Ben-Porath

Dr. Ben-Porath received her doctorate in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000. She was awarded two successive Tel Aviv University President’s postdoctoral grants. In 2001-2004, she

Anthony B Atkinson

Professor Sir Tony Atkinson was an academic economist particularly concerned with issues of social justice and the design of public policy. He has been writing on economics since the 1960s, when hi

Abhijit V Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J

Michael J Graetz

Michael J. Graetz is the Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law and the Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law at Columbia Law School. He is also the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law Emeritus an

Leslie Hossfeld

Dr. Leslie Hossfeld joined Clemson University as dean of the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences (CBSHS) in July 2018.

Dean Hossfeld serves as the chief academic, fiscal and adm

Molly Ladd-Taylor

My research focuses on the histories of women’s health, maternal and child welfare policy, and eugenics in the United States.

My early work explored how middle-class “maternalists” used the i

Michael Clay Carey

Michael Clay Carey teaches courses in print and online journalism, including introductory and advanced writing classes, visual storytelling, and the practicum classes that produce The Local, an awa

Ibram X Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, a #1 New York Times best-selling author, and the youngest-ever winner of the National Book Award for Nonfict

Joanne Samuel Goldblum

Joanne Samuel Goldblum is the founding Executive Director of the National Diaper Bank Network. She is also the founder of the Diaper Bank, formerly the New Haven Diaper Bank, where she volunteered

Mark Robert Rank

Mark R. Rank is recognized as a foremost expert on issues of poverty, inequality and social justice.  His research on the life course risk of poverty has demonstrated for the first time that a

Marvin Dunn

Dr. Dunn served as a naval officer aboard the aircraft carriers U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Saratoga, and was the Commander of the 14th Battalion, U.S. Naval Recruit Training Command in Great

James B Bennett

James B. Bennett is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, where he has taught since 2002. Prior to that, he was the Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Hono

Marisa Abrajano

Marisa Abrajano is professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests are in American politics, particularly racial and ethnic politics, political par

Scott Kurashige

Scott Kurashige is a professor of American and ethnic studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He is president of the American Studies A