Faculty Affiliates

Twenty Poverty Center Faculty Affiliates, including junior and senior scholars, serve on a Faculty Advisory Board that meets at least once per academic quarter and participate in a variety of Center activities including small grant review panels and conference planning committees. They also provide the Center with linkages to other research and teaching centers on the U.W. campus and connections with national academic and policy organizations.

• Gunnar Almgren, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, is a demographer with particular interests in health, health care policy, and health outcomes.
  
  
• Mark Courtney, Professor, Ballmer Endowed Chair for Child Well-Being, School of Social Work, studies child welfare services in the United States and has conducted extensive research on individual, family, and societal contributors to the well-being of children placed in out-of-home care.


• Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography, studies issues of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets.
  
  
• Anna Haley-Lock, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, studies workplace organizations as mechanisms for social stratification and social mobility for low-income workers.
  
  
• Alexes Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, studies Race and ethnicity, juvenile justice system, social stratification and inequality.


• Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, studies issues of ethnic and social stratification, social mobility, and immigration in the U.S. and internationally.
  
  
• Susan Kemp, Charles O. Cressey Endowed Associate Professor, School of Social Work, studies supports for low-income families, public child welfare, and community-based and environmental intervention


• Marieka Klawitter, Associate Professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies public policies that affect work and income, including the effects of child support policies, welfare policies, and anti-discrimination policies for sexual orientation.
  
  
• Rachel Kleit, Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies low-income housing, housing self-sufficiency programs, links between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity


• Victoria Lawson, Professor and Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Faculty Fellow, Department of Geography, studies the the social and economic effects of global economic restructuring in the Americas.


• Taryn Lindhorst, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, studies welfare reform, violence against women, death and grief, and queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered issues.


• Shelly Lundberg, Castor Professor of Economics, studies the economics of labor markets and the family, including both theoretical modeling and empirical analysis of fertility, labor supply, wage determination, and intra-household allocation of resources.
  
  
• Marcia K. Meyers, Professor, School of Social Work and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies U.S. welfare, child care and work/family reconciliation policies.
  
  
• Becky Pettit, Assistant Professor of Sociology, brings the perspectives of demography and economic sociology to the study of social, gender and racial inequalities.
  
  
• Robert Plotnick, Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies poverty, welfare, family formation and, in particular, the determinants and consequences of teen and nonmarital fertility.
  
  
• Barbara Reskin, S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology, studies labor market stratification, job queues, nonstandard work, sex segregation, and affirmative action.


• Jennifer Romich, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, combines the disciplines of economics and human development in her research on employment, family processes and use of tax and social benefits by low-income families.
  
  
• Steven Rathgeb Smith, Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, studies nonprofit and public management, community development, and the changing roles of nonprofit organizations and government in civil society


• David Takeuchi, Professor in the School of Social Work, studies racial, socio-economic, and cultural factors associated with disparities in health, the initiation of care, and the results of health care.
  
  
• Karina Walters, William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor, School of Social Work, studies American Indian and Alaska Native health, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, and other wellness areas.