Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, April 3, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Jen Heerwig entitled “The Shifting Political Strategies of America’s Corporate Elite, 1980-2008.” Heerwig received her Ph.D in sociology from NYU in 2013.  She is assistant professor of sociology at SUNY-Stony Brook and a former postdoctoral fellow at… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Apr 3: Jen Heerwig

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, March 27, at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Tonya Brito entitled “Access to Justice in Family Court.” Brito is the Jefferson Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Faculty Affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 27: Tonya Brito

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, March 20, at 11:00 in the library, for a presentation by Peter Hall entitled “The Origins of Our Discontents: Putting Populism in Perspective.” Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. … Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 20: Peter Hall

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, 3/13 at 11:00 in the library for a presentation by Philip Oreopoulos entitled “The Remarkable Unresponsiveness to Nudging College Students and What We Can Learn from It”. Dr. Oreopoulos is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.  He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 13: Philip Oreopoulos

Dear RSF: Please join us on Wednesday, March 6, for a presentation by Rosemary Taylor entitled “The Price of Suffering:  Seeking ‘Compensation’ in Britain’s Tainted Blood Scandal.” Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Community Health at Tufts University and a Research Affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, where she… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Mar 6: Rosemary Taylor

Dear RSF: Please join us next Wednesday, 2/27, for a presentation by Richard Benjamin entitled “The State of ‘Whiteness’: Race, Socio-Politics, and the Next America”.    Dr. Benjamin is a contributing writer to the New Yorker.  During his year at the Foundation, he is working on a monograph, The White People Deadline:  Race, Status Threat,… Read More Seminar, Wednesday, Feb 27: Richard Benjamin