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Graduate Research FellowsIRP conducts a rigorous training and mentoring program for the next generation of poverty researchers under the direction of Carolyn Heinrich, IRP Associate Director, Research and Training, and Professor of Public Affairs. Students participating in the Graduate Research Fellows (GRF) Program are Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences who have an interest in poverty research and expect to complete a related dissertation. Through a combination of university resources and IRP resources from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, active IRP Graduate Fellows are also eligible to compete for financial support of their research training. Visit our GRF Program Web pages for further details about the program. Alphabetical Listing of GRFs
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AHong-Min Ahn Hong-Min Ahn's research interests include: (1) social determinants of health inequalities in older adults, (2) the relationship between social support and health over the life course, and (3) health resilience in poor older adults. BJill Bowdon Jill Bowdon’s research interests center on racial, ethnic, and economic stratification in the United States, especially as it pertains to education. Sarah Bruch Sarah Bruch’s research interests center on identifying and understanding the pathways through which social inequalities are exacerbated or ameliorated; how policies work as equalizers or stratification mechanisms; and how they shape access to and structure opportunities through their specific characteristics and design features especially for historically marginalized populations. Brett Burkhardt Brett Burkhardt is currently doing research on criminal justice, election laws, and child support payment. CYouseok Choi Yi-Yoon Chung Yi-Yoon Chung’s area of interest lies in poverty policy, in particular policy for single-mother families. She is also interested in the effects of child support on the economic well-being of poor custodial mothers, noncustodial fathers, and their families. Marissa Courey Marissa Courey's primary research interests are in the relationship between economic development and mental and physical health. She is also interested in economic evaluations of health and social policies. Benjamin Cowan Benjamin Cowan's research interest is in applied microeconomics generally, and more specifically interested in risky behavior among young adults. FMayu Fujii Mayu Fujii's research interests include broad topics in health economics, public economics, and applied microeconometrics, with major interests in the socioeconomic determinants of health and health disparities in childhood and adolescence. GFrancisco Galarza Francisco Galarza’s research interests are in development economics, experimental economics, labor economics, and applied econometrics. His professional Web site is found at: www.aae.wisc.edu/galarza. Malcolm Gold HEun Hee Han May Toshio Hara May Toshio Hara studies home-school relations with an emphasis on the perspectives of low-income first and second generation immigrant parents. She is also interested in exploring how these individuals conceive of their roles, responsibilities, and the opportunities available to them in the US public school setting. Min Ye Paing Hein Jennifer Holland Timothy Huegerich JKyung Eun Jahng Kyung Eun Jahng is currently writing her dissertation proposal which is about how institutional and policy discourses embodied by white teachers' ideas and practices shape the identities of early elementary Korean American children in the urban school. The subjects, Korean American children, of her study are from low-income families and/or in poverty. Her research intends to destabilize the unquestioned ways of reasoning about Korean American children and pedagogical practices for their education in the urban schooling through the use of a critical discourse analysis as a methodology. In addition to her dissertation, her other research is focused on the education/care services provided by a Korean Head Start program for children in poverty in the cross-cultural contexts of the US and South Korea. In her research she views poverty as a contextually constructed discourse that generates dividing practices that segregate children in poverty from unnamed others, which often leads to including or excluding so-called poor children in certain discourses and thus interrupts their full participation in the society. Eun Hee Joung KRebekah Kaplan Rebekah Kaplan's research interests are around social policy issues as they pertain to welfare reform. Nicole Kaufman Nicole Kaufman's research interests are: Citizenship Political and economic inclusion or exclusion Economic and racial inequality Social movements and courts Law in everyday life Ethnographic techniques Community Especially pertaining to these issues: Environmental racism, Incarceration, Law clinics Ko Eun Kim Ko Eun Kim’s research interests include early childhood education and child care policy that may especially affect poor and minority families and their children with the major research interest directed towards exploring the impact of recent changes in federal, state, and local policies and practices on Head Start programs that primarily serve children and families at the poverty level as the longest-lasting federal early childhood program. LCallie Langton Callie Langton's research interests include understanding the why there are differences between parental proxy reports of child health vs. self-rated health reports by children; the relationship between family structure and family health outcomes; and the interaction between health literacy and a parent's ability to successfully navigate the health care system for their family. She is also interested broadly in the fields of program evaluation and benefit-cost analysis. Woon Kyung Lee Woon Kyung Lee's researach interests include: development of adolescents in low income families and the role of after school programs. OHeather O'Connell Heather O'Connell's research interests are in social stratification and race and ethnicity, with a demographic twist. More specifically, poverty and the place and race relationships within that section of inequality. PClaudia Pereira Fabian T. Pfeffer Fabian Pfeffer's research interests are in the area of social stratification and mobility, sociology of education, and international comparisons. His dissertation research focuses on the role of parental wealth in the process of intergenerational status transmission for the US and Germany. His professional website is at: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~fpfeffer/. RJeong Hee Ryu Jeong Hee Ryu’s research interests are in the area of children and families in poverty and specifically in the impact of socioeconomic factors on physical health and well-being for low-income children. SHilary Shager Hilary Shager’s research interests are in social welfare and education policy. Kia Noel Sorensen Kia Noel Sorensen has a general interest in issues pertaining to inequality in education. TAlyn Turner Alyn Turner's research interests are in social stratification, sociology of education, and population health. Her current research projects explore relationships between early health status, school readiness, and initial transitions to school. UAdriano Udani Adriano Udani is interested in examining the commonalities and differences among state-level immigration, public assistance, and incarceration policies in order to understand the extent to which immigrants, refugees, and asylees are incorporated as members in American society. He is also interested in broadly studying citizenship from the intersections between race, class, and gender. WRichelle Winkler Richelle Winkler's research examines poverty and inequality in rural communities in the United States. In particular, she is interested in how changing demographic, socioeconomic, and community contexts impact the less advantaged members of rural communities. YMi Youn Yang Marci Ybarra Marci Ybarra’s primary research interests include issues related to welfare reform for women of color, more specifically the following: (1) The impact of service delivery on clients, particularly clients of color in urban areas, (2) The role of caseworker discretionary decision-making on client program experiences, and (3)The role of agency variation in service delivery in client outcomes related to service usage and employment. Anat Yom-Tov Anat Yom-Tov’s research interests are in stratification and labor market inequality, wage inequality, spatial effects, contextual effects, and race and gender disparities across jobs, space, and neighborhoods. |
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