Russell Sage Foundation Director of Publications Suzanne Nichols to Hold Workshop at CISS on 2/14
On February 14 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Suzanne Nichols, director of publications at The Russell Sage Foundation will discuss “Getting Your Work Supported and Noticed Beyond Your Discipline and the Academy.” She will describe the funding, book publishing, journal special issue, and visiting scholar opportunities provided by the foundation, and will answer questions regarding ways that BU faculty, postdoctoral scholars. and graduate students can seek support from the Foundation. She will also have time available for one-on-one consultations. Please contact Elizabeth Cohen (efcohen@bu.edu; CISS affiliate and Maxwell Professor in US Citizenship) and Shannon Landis (ciss@bu.edu; CISS administrator) to arrange for a personal meeting with Suzanne. The workshop will be held in the 5th floor conference room at CISS (704 Commonwealth Ave), and is generously supported by the Maxwell Professorship in US Citizenship (CAS).
The Russell Sage Foundation was established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences in order to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses. The foundation supports visiting scholars in residence and publishes books and a journal under its own imprint. It also funds researchers at other institutions and supports programs intended to develop new generations of social scientists.
Many BU faculty have benefited from RSF programming including:
- Deborah Carr (CISS director and CAS/Sociology) published Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life (2019) with Russell Sage Press.
- Elizabeth Cohen (CISS affiliate and CAS/Political Science) was a RSF Visiting Scholar in 2014-2015.
- Susan Eckstein (CAS/Sociology and Pardee) was co-editor of a special issue RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, focused on new immigrant labor market niches.
- Katherine Levine Einstein (CAS/Political Science) received a grant from RSF’s Social, Political, and Economic Inequality program for her project “Divided Regions: Racial Inequality, Political Segregation, and the Splintering of Metropolitan America.”
- James Feigenbaum (CAS/Economics) received a grant from RSF’s Intergenerational Mobility program, for his project “The American Dream in the Great Depression: Absolute Income Mobility in the United States, 1915-1940.”
- Rachel Nolan (Pardee) received a grant from RSF’s Race, Ethnicity and Immigration program for her project “The Returned: Deportation as Migration at the Personal, Family, and National Scale.”
- Heather Schoenfeld (CISS affiliate and CAS/sociology) received a grant from RSF’s Social, Political, and Economic Inequality program for her project ” 21st Century Justice: The Struggle to Decarcerate in the States.”
- Christine Slaughter (CAS/Political Science) received an RSF Pipeline Grant for her project “‘Abandoned By Everyone Else’: Intergenerational Poverty and Black Political Engagement.”