Leslie McCall, the associate director of the Stone Center and a Presidential Professor of sociology and political science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, was named a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar for the 2023–2024 year. The 10-month residential fellowship supports scholars as they pursue research and writing projects aimed at strengthening the social sciences and improving social and living conditions in the United States.
McCall will use the fellowship for a project on public opinion and media coverage on economic inequality and related policy preferences. She will investigate responses to class, racial, ethnic, and gender inequality using survey experiments, media content analysis, and new policy questions in order to examine how people draw connections among different forms of economic inequality — such as class, race, and gender — and coalesce around solutions to widespread economic inequality.
“The Russell Sage Foundation has a unique and wonderful staff, administration, and space that genuinely values and supports collaborative research that can enhance understanding of, and ultimately have an impact on reducing, the most persistent and troubling social problems and inequities that we face today,” she said.
McCall is one of two Graduate Center professors and one alum who received fellowships. The foundation selected 18 visiting scholars for the upcoming academic year.
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