Researchers from the University of Michigan and Nearby Institutions
The NPC draws on a deep and talented group of research scholars at the U-M and several local institutions. These scholars have extensive experience conducting poverty-related research and include affiliates from the medical school, economists, demographers, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, social work and public health researchers, historians, and methodologists.
U-M and Local Research Affiliates contribute to our Working Paper Series, speak at NPC events, undertake collaborative research projects, review grant applications, and participate in our mentoring and training activities.
For more information about becoming a U-M or Local Research Affiliate, please contact Shawn Marie Pelak.
University of Michigan
William George Axinn, Professor, Dept. of Sociology; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies; Deputy Director,
National Survey of Family Growth
Martha J. Bailey, Research Fellow, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Jennifer S. Barber, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology;
Assistant Research Professor, ISR/Survey Research Center and
ISR/Population Studies Center.
Michael S. Barr,
Professor of Law,
University of Michigan Law School
John Bound, Professor, Dept. of Economics; Research
Professor, ISR/Population Studies
Philip Bowman, Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity, and Professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
Charles C. Brown, Professor, Dept. of Economics; Research Professor, ISR/Survey Research Center
Elizabeth Bruch, RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, Health Management and Policy
Sarah Burgard, Assistant Professor of
Sociology; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Assistant Research Professor, Population Studies Center
Nancy E. Burns, Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor,
Dept. of Political Science; Research Professor,
ISR/Center for Political Studies
Anthony S. Chen, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology
and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Mary Corcoran, Professor, Dept. of Political Science
and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Paul Courant, Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics
Sandra K. Danziger, Professor, School of Social
Work; Research Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Director, Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare
Policy
Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor
of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Director,
Ford Foundation Program on Poverty and Public Policy; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies Center
Matthew M. Davis, Associate Professor, Depts. of Pediatrics and Communicable Disease and Internal Medicine; and Associate Professor
of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Pamela Davis-Kean, Assistant Research Professor, Institute
for Research on Gender and Women; and ISR/Research Center for
Group Dynamics
John E. DiNardo, Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of
Public Policy and Department of Economics
Reynolds Farley, Otis Dudley Duncan Collegiate Professor
of Sociology; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies
David L. Featherman, Professor, Dept. of Sociology; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Gary L. Freed, Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of Pediatrics
and Community Health, Dept. of Pediatrics and School of Public
Health
Elisabeth R. Gerber, Professor, Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy
Elizabeth Gershoff, Assistant Professor of
Social Work
Joseph Grengs, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
Myron Gutmann, Professor, Dept. of History; Director,
ISR/ Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
John W. Hagen, Professor, Dept. of Psychology; Research
Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development
Richard Hall, Professor, Dept. of Political Science and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
David Harding, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, and Assistant Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Lori Diane Hill, Assistant Professor, School of Education and College of Literature, Science, & Arts
James House,
Professor of Sociology, Research Professor, ISR/SRC, and School of Public Health
Joel D. Howell, Victor Vaughan Collegiate Professor of
the History of Medicine, School of Public Health; Medical School;
and Dept. of History
James S. Jackson, Professor, Dept. of Psychology; Director
and Research Professor, ISR/ Research Center for Group
Dynamics and Program for Research on Black Americans
Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
George A. Kaplan, Professor, Department of Epidemiology,School
of Public Health; Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and
Population Health; Director, RWJ Health and Society Scholars
Program; Research Professor, ISR/Survey Research Center
Paula M. Lantz, Associate Professor; School of Public
Health
Helen Levy, Assistant Research Professor, Economic Research Initiative on
the Uninsured; Assistant Research Professor, School of Public Health
Richard L. Lichtenstein, Associate Professor, School
of Public Health
Ann Lin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science
and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Brian P. McCall, Professor of Education and Professor of Economics, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
Justin McCrary,
Assistant Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics
Catherine G. McLaughlin,
Professor, School of Public Health; Director, Economic Research
Initiative on the Uninsured
Jeffrey Morenoff, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology;
Faculty Associate, ISR/Population Studies Center
Susan A. Murphy, Professor, Dept. of Statistics; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies and ISR/Survey Research
Center
Harold Neighbors, Associate Professor, School of Public
Health; Associate Director, ISR/ Research Center for Group Dynamics-Program
for Research on Black Americans
Susan B. Neuman, Professor of Educational Studies, School of Education
Carla O'Connor , Associate Professor, School
of Education
Richard H. Price, Professor, Dept. of Psychology; Research Professor and Director, ISR/Survey Research Center-Michigan
Prevention Research Center
Brian Rowan, Professor of Education
Robert F. Schoeni, Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School
of Public Policy; Associate Research Professor, ISR/Survey
Research Center; Associate Director, Panel Study of Income Dynamics
John E. Schulenberg, Professor, Dept. of Psychology;
Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
Kristin S. Seefeldt, Research Investigator, Gerald R.
Ford School of Public Policy; Assistant Director, National Poverty Center
Matthew D. Shapiro, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Economics;
Research Professor, ISR/Survey Research Center; and Senior
Advisor, Michigan Census Research Data Center
Daniel Silverman, Assistant Professor of Economics
Patricia Smith, Department of Social Sciences
Jeffrey Smith, Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Pamela Smock, Professor, Dept. of Sociology;
Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies
Edward P. St. John, Algo D. Henderson Collegiate Professor of Education, Center for the
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
David Thacher, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning
Arland D. Thornton, Professor, Dept. of Sociology; Director
and Senior Research Scientist, ISR/Population Studies Center
Maris A. Vinovskis, A.M. and H.P. Bentley Professor of
History, Dept. of History and Gerald R. Ford School of Public
Policy; Research Professor, ISR/Center for Political
Studies
Trina R. Williams Shanks, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Robert J. Willis, Professor, Dept. of Economics; Research Professor, ISR/Survey Research Center
Yu Xie, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of Sociology
and Statistics; Research Professor, ISR/Population Studies
Center and ISR/Survey Research Center
Alford Young, Jr. Associate Professor of Sociology and
CAAS (Center for Afro-American and African Studies)
Michigan State University
- Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Associate Professor of Economics
Steven Haider, Associate Professor of Economics
Leslie E. Papke, Professor of Economics
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Timothy J. Bartik, Senior Economist
Randall W. Eberts, Executive Director
Susan N. Houseman, Senior Economist
Wayne State University
George C. Galster, Geography and Urban Planning
Western Michigan University
Jean Kimmel, Department of Economics