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Margaret Dewar

Professor Emerita of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Margaret Dewar’s research is in the broad areas of economic development, housing and community development, urban environmental planning and urban land use. Her current projects address remaking cities following abandonment and strengthening deterior...

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Natasha Pilkauskas

Associate Faculty Director, Poverty Solutions; Professor of Public Policy

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Natasha Pilkauskas is associate faculty director at Poverty Solutions and a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Her research considers how demographic, social safety net, and economic shi...

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Kristin Seefeldt

Faculty Director of Poverty Solutions; Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Professor of Public Policy; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

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Kristin S. Seefeldt’s primary research interests lie in exploring how low-income individuals understand their situations, particularly around issues related to work and economic well-being. Her most recent book, "Abandoned Families: Social Isolation ...

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Sumit Agarwal

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health

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Dr. Sumit Agarwal, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. is a primary care physician, health economist, and assistant professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and School of Public Health. Agarwal’s research examines the impact of social, economic, and in...

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Crystal Amen (Scott)

Chair, Department of Management and Marketing; Associate Professor of Marketing

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Crystal J. Amen (Scott) is an associate professor of marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business. She holds degrees from University of Michigan and Penn State University. PhD in Marketing, Penn State University; MS, Universit...

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Elizabeth Armstrong

Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology; Chair, Department of Sociology; Professor of Women's and Gender Studies; Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research

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Elizabeth Armstrong is the Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Armstrong joined the U-M faculty in 2009, returning to her undergraduate alma mater. Armstrong received her PhD from the University of Califo...

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Pamela Aronson

Professor of Sociology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Professor Aronson’s publications examine how social structures (such as collapsing economic institutions during the Great Recession, and gender, race and class inequalities) impact identities and the life course. Dr. Aronson conducted in-depth interv...

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John Ayanian

Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Alice Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Medicine, Medical School; Professor of Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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John Ayanian is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation at the University of Michigan, which includes nearly 500 faculty members from 15 schools and colleges at the University. He is the Alice Hamilton Professor o...

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Katherine Bauer

Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences

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Katherine (Kate) W. Bauer is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the prevention of childhood obesity, which severely disproportionately impacts children in poverty. Much of her work focuses on the role of families in children's and adolescent...

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Audrey Bennett

University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Art and Design; Professor of Communication and Media

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Audrey Bennett is a graphic design scholar who studies cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary design that make use of images that permeate global culture and impact the way we think and behave. Her research contributes a hypothesis called interactive ...

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Melissa Borja

Associate Professor of American Culture; Director, Academic Program in American Culture

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Melissa Borja, a core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, earned a PhD and MPhil in history from Columbia University, in addition to an MA in history from the University of Chicago and an AB in history from Harvard ...

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Barbara Brush

Carol J. and F. Edward Lake Professor of Population Health, Professor of Nursing

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Barbara L. Brush is the Carol J. and F. Edward Lake Professor of Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, a Board Member of the Detroit Urban Community-Academic Research Center, and a past faculty Director of the Public Part...

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Thomas Buchmueller

Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance; Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Health Management and Policy; Faculty Associate, Institute for Social Research; Chair of the Business Economics Area at the Ross School of Business

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Tom Buchmueller is the Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and Chair of the Business Economics Area at the Ross School of Business. He also holds an appointment in Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of...

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Melissa Burch

Assistant Professor, Anthropology

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Melissa Burch is an anthropologist whose research and community work focuses on the experiences of people with criminal convictions in the United States, with an emphasis on how social hierarchies and inequalities are maintained and reproduced throug...

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Sarah Burgard

Director, Population Studies Center; Professor of Sociology; Research Professor, Population Studies Center; Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology (by courtesy)

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Sarah Burgard is a professor of sociology and, by courtesy, of epidemiology and public policy at the University of Michigan. She is also a research professor in and director of the Population Studies Center and a research affiliate in the Survey Rese...

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James Buszkiewicz

Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

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James Buszkiewicz is a social epidemiologist who applies both epidemiologic and econometric methods to understand how policy can address key structural determinants of health, such as income inequity and racism. Buszkiewicz has used restricted-use da...

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Nicholas Camp

Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies; Assistant Professor of Psychology; Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research

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Nick Camp studies the social psychology of racial inequality, focusing on where institutions and individuals come into contact. His main program of research examines the role routine police-citizen encounters play in undermining police-community trus...

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Bridgette Carr

Clinical Professor of Law; Director Human Trafficking Clinic

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Bridgette Carr has dedicated her career to advocating for the rights of human trafficking victims and advancing comprehensive domestic and international anti-trafficking policies. Her work focuses on driving paradigm shifts in the way human trafficki...

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Tammy Chang

Associate Professor of Family Medicine; Director, National Clinician Scholars Program, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

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Dr. Tammy Chang is a health services researcher and practicing family physician with a passion for adolescent health, specifically, breaking the cycle of poverty and poor health among adolescent mothers and their children. Her NIH-sponsored resea...

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Jowei Chen

Associate Professor of Political Science; Research Associate Professor, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

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Jowei Chen's research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies and legislatures. He has studied how legislators' pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts, and he has examined how governmen...

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Elizabeth Cole

University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Psychology; Professor of Women's and Gender Studies; Program Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity

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Elizabeth Cole is a Professor in the Women’s Studies and Psychology Departments at the University of Michigan. She also has an unbudgeted appointment with the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and an affiliation with the Personality and So...

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Melissa Creary

Associate Professor Health Management and Policy

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Melissa Creary, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (focusing on Health, History, and Culture) at the Graduate Institute f...

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Jerry Davis

Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Sociology; Professor of Management and Organizations; Director for Business + Impact

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Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan. Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford Universit...

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Pamela Davis-Kean

Professor of Psychology; Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics; Center Director, Survey Research Center

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Pamela Davis-Kean is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan where her research focuses on the various pathways that the socio-economic status (SES) of parents relates to the cognitive/achievement outcomes of their children. Her prima...

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Luciana de Souza Leão

Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Luciana de Souza Leão is an assistant professor in the sociology department at U-M. She is a political and comparative sociologist with broad interests in knowledge-making processes, social inequalities, and the state. Her three main areas of researc...

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Lan Deng

Professor of Urban Planning

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Lan Deng is an expert on affordable housing policies and affordable housing finance and has conducted extensive research in this area. Her research spans between the U.S. and China. In the U.S., Deng is a leading scholar in the research on the Low-In...

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Matthew Diemer

Professor of Educational Studies and the Combined Program in Education and Psychology; Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research (ISR)

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Matthew Diemer is a developmental psychologist who examines how young people overcome racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other constraints in school, college, work, and civic/political institutions. He is particularly interested in how marginalized pe...

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Paul Draus

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Director, Detroit Center

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Poverty is an underlying factor driving health, substance use and incarceration in urban environments. Paul J. Draus' research has evolved significantly since he completed his PhD in 2001, but a fundamental concern with both poverty's root causes an...

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Nell Duke

Professor in Literacy, Language, and Culture and in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology

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Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., is a professor in literacy, language, and culture and in the combined program in education and psychology at the University of Michigan. Duke’s work focuses on early literacy development, particularly among children living in pov...

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Lex Eisenberg

Lecturer, Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health

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Lex Eisenberg is an educator, researcher, and organizer based in Detroit whose work integrates community-based knowledge and mixed methods to understand how policy implementation and enforcement impacts housing, health, and racial equity. Their resea...