Congratulations to Prudence Carter, who has been selected for the Brown 2026 steering committee, a faculty-led initiative created in recognition of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. The committee will consider how the University can best contribute to scholarship, teaching, and programming on the history and legacies of the American Revolution, as well as the role of research universities in a democracy.
Congratulations to Emily Rauscher for being a recipient of a Spencer Foundation Grant (“Hidden Money: School-Supporting Non-Profit Funds and Rising Inequality”). This grant represents a large extension of her recent Sage Foundation Grant that will allow her to also examine qualitative data to learn how unequal non-profit funds are, how those funds matter, and how much they contribute to rising inequality of student outcomes.
Rachel Wetts' article, "Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate" was published earlier last month (Nov. 2023) in the American Journal of Sociology. The paper investigates how the economic power of interest groups -- and the cultural appeal of their messages -- shape which voices have received media coverage in the US climate change debate.
Congratulations to Jennifer Candipan for being a recipient of a Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant (“Widening Disparities in Changing Places: The Relationship between Changing Racial Demographics of Neighborhoods and Racial Disparities in School Discipline”).
Congratulations to David Lindstrom as the Co-investigator (with Silvia Giorguli) of an R01 research award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Mesoamerican Migration Project (MMP) to collect public use survey data on migration to the United States in 36 communities in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras over a five year period.
