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  • Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, “Research Is Not Enough: Public Engagement and the Citizen Scholar”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: Philip N. Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His latest book, Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (Columbia University Press 2025), addresses the role of intellectuals in public life and offers guidance for a career in social science. His other research concerns demographic trends, family structure, […]

  • Michael Geruso, UT Austin, Book Talk on “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People”

    Royce Hall, Room 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles,, CA

      Biography: Dr. Michael Geruso is coauthor of After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People. Geruso is an economic demographer, public economist, and associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2023 to 2024, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, […]

  • David Grusky, Stanford University, “Why is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive? The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research examines the structure of social mobility and inequality, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring mobility and inequality, and […]

  • Jonathan Kolstad, University of California, Berkley, “Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity, decision making and medical diagnosis”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

      Biography: Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Haas School of Business, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair, and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a core faculty member in the Computational Precision Health Graduate Group at UC Berkeley and UCSF, the founding director of the Center for […]

  • Amy Finkelstein, MIT, “Trading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography: Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT that encourages and facilitates randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She is also the co-Director of the Economics of […]

  • Patrick Ishizuka, Washington University St Louis, “The Stalled Gender Housework Revolution in the United States”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

    Biography: Patrick Ishizuka is a sociologist and demographer who uses quantitative and experimental methods to understand gender and socioeconomic inequality in the workplace and in family life. His recent projects examine trends in gender housework inequality, the shifting economic foundations of marriage among cohabiting couples, and parenting attitudes toward adolescents who transgress norms relating to […]

  • Michael Lens, UCLA, “Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods”

    Room 4240A, 4th Floor, Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles Young Dr., LA, CA 90095

                            Biography: Michael Lens is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Chair of the Luskin Undergraduate Programs, and Associate Faculty Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Professor Lens’ research and teaching explore the potential of public policy to address housing […]

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