Congratulations, New Scholars!

Lori Beaman,: Economics
Tim Büthe,: Political Science
Cybelle Fox,: Sociology
John Friedman,: Economics

News

May 2007: Anthony Chen publishes, "The Party of Lincoln and the Politics of State Fair Employment Practices Legislation in the North, 1945-64" in the American Journal of Sociology.
April 2007: Alexandra Kalev's groundbreaking new study that shows employee diversity training does not work is featured in Time Magazine.
August 2006: Naomi Murakawa receives the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association's Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section.
August 2006: Robert Mickey receives the American Political Science Association's E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral disseration in the field of American Government.
April 2006: Anthony Chen publishes,"The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas: Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Fair Employment Legislation in NY State, 1941-45."

Current Scholar Bios

Lori Beaman received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2007. Her fields of interest are labor and development economics. Lori's research has looked at the role of social networks in providing job information to refugees resettled in the US, and the impact of female political leadership on gender bias in rural India. As a RWJ Scholar, she is interested in examining the causes and consequences of health disparities among political refugees resettled in the US, and how social networks may play a role in mitigating or improving public health interventions.