Hyun Hye Bae is a PhD candidate in urban planning at Columbia University. Her research interest lies in community participation, neighborhood development, racial segregation, and multiculturalism.
Heather Battles is a lecturer in biological anthropology at the University of Auckland. Her ongoing projects use archival data to examine social, geographic, and demographic patterns in infectious disease mortality. Her recent publications include “Differences in Polio Mortality by Socioeconomic Status in Two Southern Ontario Counties, 1900–1937” in Social Science History and, with co-author Bobbie-Leigh Jones, “The Social Geography of Diphtheria Mortality in Hamilton” in Ontario History.
Kerice Doten-Snitker is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Washington. Her research concerns how social boundaries intertwine with political development and institutional change.
Cybelle Fox is Class of 1944 Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main research interests are in race, immigration, and the American welfare state. Her most recent book, Three Worlds of Relief (Princeton University Press, 2012), compares the incorporation of Blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants in the American welfare system from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Her next book project focuses on the rise of federal citizenship and legal status restrictions in American social welfare policy from the New Deal to the present.
Lance Freeman is a professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Urban Planning at Columbia University. He is the author of the forthcoming book, A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America by Columbia University Press.
Gregori Galofré-Vilà is at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia.
Bill Kissane is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics in the Government Department of the London School of Economics. He is the author of The Politics of the Irish Civil War (2002) and numerous article on Irish contemporary history. His most recent books are After Civil War: Division, Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe (2015) and Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War (2016).
Meredith Kleykamp is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Kleykamp’s research investigates how serving in the military shapes the lives of those who serve and their families with a particular emphasis on civilian labor force outcomes. Her research also examines civilian attitudes and understandings of the nature of military service.
Alair MacLean is Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. MacLean’s research addresses questions related to inequality in historical and cross-national context. She focuses on unequal pathways through the transition to adulthood, first examining military service and, more recently, higher education. In this work, she examines the factors that shape the trajectories that people follow in their late teens and early twenties.
Phillip Roberts is a freelance archaeologist and an adjunct senior research fellow at Federation University Australia. Past outputs on disease patterns and their relationship to socioeconomic change include Diagnosis as an Artefact (2014) and An Archival Approach to the Pathological Progression of Syphilis and Tuberculosis (2014). Demonstrating his multidisciplinary interests, are his work on Aboriginal economics in Revisiting the Mount William Greenstone Quarry (2017) and palaeoenvironments in Sedimentary, Charcoal and Palynological Analysis of Djadjiling (2018).
Steven Ruggles is Regents Professor of History and Population Studies and Director of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota. He is best known as the creator of IPUMS, the world’s largest population database. His research focuses on historical demography, including the effects of long-run demographic change on family composition. He recently published (with Diana L. Magnuson) “Census Technology, Politics, and Institutional Change, 1790–2020,” Journal of American History (2020). He was president of the Social Science History Association in 2018–19.
