Applying for the Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars Program: A Conversation among Recipients, featuring Dara Strolovitch
What can a year at the Russell Sage Foundation do for your research? This panel brings together former Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars, Dr. Dara Strolovitch (Yale University) and Dr. Linda Tropp (UMass Amherst), for a panel discussion. It will address how they navigated their journey toward the RSF Scholars program. How did they decide when to apply? What did the process of building an application packet look like “from the inside”? How did they use their time while spending the year in residence at Russell Sage? This panel will be of interest to faculty contemplating residential fellowships of all kinds, whether they are planning for a sabbatical or seeking funding for completion of a major writing project. Libby Sharrow, ISSR Director of Faculty Research, will moderate.
Dr. Dara Strolovitch will also be presenting her research, When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America, on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 4:00 - 5:30 pm in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall.
This panel discussion is co-sponsored by the SBS Research Council.
Panelist bios:
Dr. Dara Strolovitch is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Political Science at Yale University, and taught previously at the University of Minnesota and Princeton University. She is also co-director of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and co-editor of the American Political Science Review. Her work has been supported by grants and fellowships from sources including the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Irving Louis Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the Brookings Institution, the World Health Organization, the American Political Science Association, Georgetown University, Stanford University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as by internal grants from Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and Princeton University, and her research and graduate mentorship were recognized in 2018 by the Midwest Political Science Association Women’s Caucus’s Outstanding Career Award.
Dr. Linda Tropp is Professor of Social Psychology and Faculty Associate in Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Over the last decade, Tropp and her colleagues have received funding from the Russell Sage Foundation to support multi-disciplinary research projects, and she participated in the Russell Sage Visiting Scholars Program during the 2017-2018 academic year; she has also received funding from several other private foundations to support her research activities, and she has been a visiting fellow at other academic centers and research institutions in the U.S., Germany, New Zealand, Chile, and the U.K. Dr. Tropp is coauthor of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011) and editor of several books, including Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011), the Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012), and Making Research Matter: A Psychologist’s Guide to Public Engagement (2018).
Moderator bio:
Dr. Libby Sharrow is the Director of Faculty Research for ISSR, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of History. They specialize in the gendered politics of public policy and how policy has shaped intersectional meanings of sex, race, sexuality, disability, and class in US politics over the past fifty years. Sharrow’s research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Association of University Women, the American Political Science Association, the Williams Institute at the UCLA Law School, the Myra Sadker Foundation, the Gerald Ford Presidential Foundation, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Their first book, Equality Unfulfilled (2023), won multiple scholarly awards