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.