Executive Committee

The Poverty Center’s multi-disciplinary Executive Committee provides intellectual and strategic leadership to the Center. The Committee is composed of five Senior Faculty Affiliates of the Center who are prominent scholars within the fields of Sociology, Economics, Geography, Public Affairs and Social Work with substantial scholarly expertise and visibility in the Center’s priority research areas of labor markets, demography and the family. Their participation in the Center is supported in part by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, and the School of Social Work.

• Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography, studies issues of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets.
  
  
• 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 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.
  
  
• 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.

Faculty Affiliates

Seven 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.
  
  
• Anna Haley-Lock, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, studies workplace organizations as mechanisms for social stratification and social mobility for low-income workers.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Becky Pettit, Assistant Professor of Sociology, brings the perspectives of demography and economic sociology to the study of social, gender and racial inequalities.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.