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Samuel Barrows

PhD in Political Science, 2014.
Data Scientist, Uber

Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School, 2015-2017.

Deirdre Bloome

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2014.
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan.

Affiliated Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2019-2021.

Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar, 2017-2018.

Winner of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, American Sociological Association Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, 2020.

Winner of the Distinguished Contributions to the Sociology of Population Award, American Sociological Association Section on Population, 2015.

Winner of the American Sociological Association Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, 2014, for "Racial Inequality Trends and the Intergenerational Persistence of Income and Family Structure,” American Sociological Review 79(6):1196-1225. 2014.

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Charlotte Cavaillé

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2014.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.

Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, 2019-2020.

Winner of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) Multidisciplinary Prize rewarding “scientifically exciting and ambitious endeavors” (with Daniel L. Chen, Toulouse School of Economics), 2016.

Winner of the American Political Science Association's Mancur Olson Award for Best Dissertation in Political Economy, 2016. The award committee noted its pioneering contribution ”to our understanding of heterogeneity in public responses to the objective increase in inequality, a major policy and political issue of our time.”

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Sara Sternberg Greene

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2014.
Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.

Sara Sternberg Greene is an interdisciplinary scholar whose interests span consumer law, bankruptcy, poverty law, access to justice, tax, and contracts. Broadly concerned in her scholarship with the relationship between law and inequality, Greene has recently focused on the role of the law in perpetuating and exacerbating poverty and inequality.

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Christopher Muller

PhD in Sociology, 2014.
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, Columbia University, 2014-16.

Winner of the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association Comparative-Historical Section, 2019. For "Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South," American Journal of Sociology 124: 367-405.

Winner of IPUMS Spatial Research Award, 2018.

Winner of the Larry Neal Prize (joint with James Feigenbaum) for best article in Explorations in Economic History, 2017.

Outstanding Professor, Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association, 2017,

Winner of the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award, 2015.

Winner of the Roger V. Gould Prize for best article in the American Journal of Sociology, 2014.

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Matthew Resseger

PhD in Economics, 2014.
Senior Economist, Boston Planning and Development Agency
Adjunct Professor in City Planning and Urban Affairs, Boston University

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Jacqueline Cooke Rivers

PhD in African and African American Studies, 2014.
Director, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies.
Lecturer in African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Hutchins Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, 2016-2017.

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Eva Rosen

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2014.
Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Poverty and Inequality Research Lab, Johns Hopkins University, 2015-2017.

The Voucher Promise, by Eva Rosen Eva Rosen's first book, The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood, has been published by Princeton University Press (July 2020).

Recognized as one of APPAM’s outstanding early career scholars, receiving their 40 for 40 fellowship, 2018.

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

PhD in Psychology, 2014.
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science.

British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017.

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington's dissertation, “Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains,” was awarded the Harvard University Richard J. Herrnstein Prize (2014-2015) and received an Honorable Mention from the International Society for Political Psychology Best Dissertation Award.

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