Many poverty researchers at the University of Washington, including junior and senior scholars, are Faculty Affiliates with the Poverty Center. Faculty Affiliates participate in a variety of Center activities including small grant review panels and conference planning committees. They also provide the Center with linkages to other research and teaching centers on the UW campus and connections with national academic and policy organizations.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, is a demographer with particular interests in health care policy and practice; organizational practice; morbidity; mortality and social behavior; and educational and labor market outcomes at the transition to adulthood.
Associate Professor, School of Education, researches issues of equity and access for underrepresented groups in the education pipeline.
Professor and Clarence & Elissa Schrage Fellow, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches criminology, race and ethnic relations, urban community; crime and labor markets.
Professor of Geography, researches immigration, internal migration, race, labor markets, and research methods.
Professor, Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches issues related to urban social geographies; feminist geographies; and labor markets.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, is a political scientist who researches African-American women and depression; racial disparities in birth outcomes; and the etiological pathways to preterm birth and low birth weight from a life-course perspective.
Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies and Professor, Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches twentieth century US history, labor history and radical labor movements; regionalism, both the West and the South; race and civil rights; inter-state migration.
Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, is a developmental psychologist who researches Mental health of socio-economically disadvantaged women; culturally-relevant and engagement based interventions; maternal depression and birth outcomes.
Assistant Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, is a social psychologist who researches judgment and decision making; social welfare policy; and poverty.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches race and ethnicity; juvenile justice systems; social stratification and inequality; and qualitative research methods.
Boeing International Professor, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, researches ethnic and social stratification; social mobility; immigration in the US and internationally; and educational and labor market outcomes at the transition to adulthood.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches labor economics; econometrics; applied microeconomics; and immigrant labor force and public assistance participation.
Associate Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, is an economist who researches family and employment policy; gender issues; sexual minority issues in demography and policy; policy evaluation; and state welfare programs.
Associate Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Urban Design and Planning, researches low-income housing policy; urban and social policy; social networks and social capital; housing self-sufficiency programs; links between housing location, neighborhood composition, social networks, and access to opportunity.
Professor and Thomas L. & Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Faculty Fellow, Department of Geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches the social and economic effects of global economic restructuring in the Americas; and poverty in the rural Northwest.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, researches poverty and welfare reform; violence against women; health practice; death and grief; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered issues.
Associate Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, is an economist who researches low- income and minority youth; educational equity; race and inequality; policy structures and decision-making; public economics; labor economics; the economics of education; and applied econometrics.
Blumstein-Jordan Endowed Professor, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches classical theories of crime, such as differential association, social control, and labeling; and rational choice theories.
Professor, School of Social Work and Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, researches US welfare; child care and work/family policies; and social welfare policy formation and institutions.
Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches American politics with an emphasis on racial and gender politics, public policy, and American political development.
Assistant Professor, Department of History in the College of Arts of Sciences, researches US politics and policy; urban and environmental history; and the US West.
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches demographic methods; economic sociology; social, gender and racial inequalities; crime and statistics; family policy; and gender.
Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, is an economist who researches poverty; labor economics; social demography; social welfare policy; family formation; determinants and consequences of teen and non-marital fertility.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches labor market stratification; sociology of work; job queues; nonstandard work; sex segregation; and affirmative action.
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, combines the disciplines of economics, human development and social policy in her research on policy supports for low-income working households; income tax systems and the poor; household resources and decisions; mixed-methods research approaches.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches stratification; work and occupations; political sociology; economic sociology; and criminology.
Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, researches nonprofit and public management; social policy implementation; contracting and privatization; and public-private partnerships.
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, has a health policy and management background and researches mental health policy; interventions to refute stigmatization; tobacco related health disparities; and social norms and the stigmatization of smoking.
Professor, School of Social Work and the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches racial, socio-economic, and cultural factors associated with disparities in health problems; the initiation of care; and the results of health care.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, researches national political institutions and power relations, with a particular emphasis on how institutional structures influence policymaking and regime development; and poverty.
William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor, School of Social Work, studies American Indian and Alaska Native health, mental health, alcohol and substance abuse; other wellness areas; and resilience against historical trauma and discrimination.
