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Centers & Institutes

The following centers, institutes and initiatives at NYU are important pieces of our collective effort to combat inequality across a broad spectrum of manifestations locally, nationally and abroad.

Center/Institute	Faculty
Immigrant Rights Clinic	Alina Das, Co-Director
Marron Institute	Angela Hawken, Director
The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy	Ann Marcus, Director
Public Safety Lab	Anna Harvey, Director
Business and Society Program	Batia Wiesenfeld, Director
The Governance Lab (The GovLab)	Beth Noveck, Director
NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools	David Kirkland, Executive Director
Institute of Human Development and Social Change	Elise Cappella, Director
Institute for Public Knowledge	Eric Klinenberg, Director
Global TIES for Children	Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Co-director John Lawrence Aber, Co-director
NYU Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy	Ingrid Ellen, Director
The Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM)	Jennifer Hill, Co-director
The Research Alliance for New York City Schools	Jim Kemple, Executive Director
Center for Social and Political Behavior	John Jost, Co-director
Financial Access Initiative	Jonathan Morduch, Executive Director
NYU Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)	Josh Tucker, Co-director Jonathan Nagler, Co-director Richard Bonneau, Co-director
The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research	Michael Lindsey, Executive Director
Center for Advanced Social Science Research (CASSR)	Mike Hout, Director
The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law	Anthony Thompson, Founding Faculty Director Deborah N. Archer, Co-Faculty Director Vincent M. Southerland, Executive Director
The Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH)	TBD
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR)	TBD
Wagner Action for Social Justice, Equity, and Democracy (Wagner SEAD)	Erica Foldy Scott Taitel Sonia M Ospina John Gershman
The NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights	Michael Posner, Director Casey O'Connor, Senior Program Manager
WonderLab	Helen L. Egger, Founder and Co-Lead, WonderLab
Social Innovation & Investment Initiative	Scott Taitel, Faculty Director
John Brademas Center	Lynne Brown, Executive Director Thomas M. McIntyre, Deputy Director of Programming and Outreach

Leaders of Institutes and Centers shared their visions for NYU as "a place of courage. The courage to lead new thinking; a space for uncomfortable conversations; a place for creating and testing the big ideas that work to drive down inequality." Others suggested that CCII offers the promise of developing, testing, and sharing "a reproducible structure for connecting thinkers, researchers, and activists across disciplines, geographic areas, and skill sets to tackle large scale issues of inequality and equity."

CCII Affiliated Faculty

We have provided this list to help connect our communities and work to enhance responsiveness to inequality-related challenges.

Name	Title	School/Unit	Role & Institute/Center	Listed Scholarly Interests
Alina Das	Professor of Clinical Law	Law	Co-director, Immigrant Rights Clinic	Deportation and Detention; Immigrant Rights; Immigration and Criminal Justice
Angela Hawken	Professor of Public Policy	Office of the Provost-Marron Institute	Director, Marron Institute	Criminal justice; Education; Innovation and testing in the public sector
Ann Marcus	Professor of Higher Education	Steinhardt	Director, The Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy	International and Comparative Policy; Leadership Studies; Organizational Culture and a wide range of issues focused on Access and Equality in the U.S. and abroad
Anna Harvey	Professor of Politics; Affiliated Professor of Data Science and Law	Arts & Science	Director, Public Safety Lab	Criminal Justice; Policing; Judicial Politics; and Political Economy
Batia Wiesenfeld	Andre J.L. Koo Professor of Management	Stern	Director, Business and Society Program	Organizational Change: layoffs, restructuring, virtual work; Self processes in organizations
Beth Noveck	Professor, Technology, Culture and Society	Tandon	Director, Governance Lab (GovLab)	Public Problem Solving; Public Sector Innovation; Technology and Democracy; Open Government; Open Data; Future of Work; Workforce Development
Caroline Dorsen	Assistant Professor	Nursing	Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program	Underserved Populations; Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations; Substance use; LGBTQ; Primary care; Community/Population Health
David E. Kirkland	Professor of English and Urban Education Vice Dean of Equity, Belonging, and Community Action	Steinhardt	Executive Director, The NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and The Transformation of Schools	School Climate and Discipline; School Integration and Choice; Culture and Education; Vulnerable Learners; School Transformation; and Intersections among Race, Gender, and Education
Deborah N. Archer	Professor of Clinical Law	Law	Co-Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law	Civil Liberties; Civil Rights; Clinical Pedagogy; Racial Discrimination
Elise Cappella	Associate Professor of Applied Psychology	Steinhardt	Director, Institute of Human Development and Social Change	Schooling and Children's Mental Health; Peer Relationships in Schools and Afterschool Pograms; Equity in Education Opportunities and Outcomes; Teaching Practices and Children's Social-emotional and Academic Learning; Child- and Youth-serving Workforce in Urban, Low-income communities
Eric Klinenberg	Professor of Sociology, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science	Arts & Science	Director, Institute for Public Knowledge	Urban Studies; Climate Change and the Environment; Risk and Disaster; Culture and Media
Hiro Yoshikawa	Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education and University Professor	Steinhardt	Co-Director, Global TIES for Children center	Child and Youth Development in the US and in Low and Middle Income Countries; Programs and Policies to Support Children in Humanitarian and Conflict-affected Contexts; Poverty Reduction; Immigration especially Policies to Support Undocumented Immigrants and Mixed-status Families; LGBTQ Youth and School-based supports
Ingrid Gould Ellen	Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning	Wagner	Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy	Housing policy; Racial Segregation; Neighborhood Inequality; Community Development; Gentrification
Jennifer Hill	Professor of Applied Statistics	Steinhardt	Co-director, Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology (PRIISM)	Causal Inference; Research Design; Machine Learning; Communication of Empirical Evidence; Data Science for Social Impact
James Kemple	Research Professor of Teaching and Learning	Steinhardt	Executive Director, Research Alliance for NYC Schools	Educational Equity and Improvement; Research Design; Policy Analysis; Research-practice Partnerships
John Jost	Professor of Psychology and Politics	Arts & Science	Co-Director, Center for Social and Political Behavior	Stereotyping; Prejudice; Political Ideology; System Justification Theory
Jonathan Morduch	Professor of Public Policy and Economics	Wagner	Executive Director, Financial Access Initiative	Finance; Poverty; Inequality
Joshua Tucker	Professor of Politics	Arts & Science	Director, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Co-Director, NYU Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab	Comparative Political Behavior: Elections, Voting, Partisanship, Opinion Formation and Protest; Post-communist Politics; Social Media and Politics; Data Science
Michael Lindsey	Constance and Martin Silver Professor of Poverty Studies	Social Work	Executive Director, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research	Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Research; Adolescent Depression; Adolescent Suicide; School Mental Health; Adolescent Risk Behaviors
Mike Hout	Professor of Sociology	Arts & Science	Director, Center for Advanced Social Science Research	Inequality; Social Change; Demography; Quantitative Methods
Paula England	Professor of Sociology, Silver Professor of Arts and Science, Chair	Arts & Science		Changing Family Patterns; Care Work; Sexual Behavior; Contraception; Gender and Labor Markets; Interdisciplinary integration
Richard Brooks	Emilie M. Billows Professor of Law	Law		Agency and Fiduciary Law; Business Organization, Law, Economics, and Social Practice
Siwei Cheng	Assistant Professor of Sociology	Arts & Science		Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility; Work and Family; Life Course; Quantitative Methods
Anthony C. Thompson	Professor of Clinical Law	Law	Founding Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality and the Law	Community Justice; Community Prosecution/Defense; Criminal Law Issues; Offender Reentry; Problem-Solving Courts; Race and Public Policy Issues
Vincent Southerland	Research Scholar	Law	Executive Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law	Race; Inequality; the Criminal Legal System
Gail D'Eramo Melkus	Florence and William Downs Professor in Nursing Research	Nursing	Vice Dean for Research, Meyers Nursing	Primary Care; Non-communicable Disease; Women's Health; Immigrants' Health; Adult Health
Erica Gabrielle Foldy	Associate Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management	Wagner	Wagner Action for Social Justice, Equity, and Democracy (Wagner SEAD)	Organizational Dynamics, including Race and Racism, Gender, Power, and Collective Leadership
Scott Taitel	Clinical Professor of Public Service	Wagner	Wagner Action for Social Justice, Equity, and Democracy (Wagner SEAD)	Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Social Finance; Social Entrepreneurship; Impact Investment; Corporate Culture and Purpose
Sonia M Ospina	Professor of Public Management and Policy	Wagner	Wagner Action for Social Justice, Equity, and Democracy (Wagner SEAD)	The Participatory, Inclusive and Collaborative Dynamics of Democratic Governance, Focusing on Social Change Leadership, Social Innovation, and Public Accountability, in the US and Latin America
John Gershman	Clinical Professor of Public Service	Wagner	Wagner Action for Social Justice, Equity, and Democracy (Wagner SEAD)	Food security; U.S. Foreign Policy in East and Southeast Asia, the Politics of International Financial Institutions and Multilateralism; the Political Economy of Natural Resource Management in Ghana and the Philippines; the Politics of Sanitation; Rights-Based Approaches to Development
Michael Posner	Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance, Professor of Business and Society	Stern	Director, Center for Business and Human Rights
Casey O'Connor	Research Scholar	Stern	Senior Program Manager, Center for Business and Human Rights	Economic Inequality; ESG Investing; Evolutions in Workforce Structure
Helen Egger	Arnold Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dept. Of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman’s School of Medicine	Medicine	WonderLab	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Developmental Epidemiology of Early Childhood Psychiatric Disorders
Maria Abascal	Assistant Professor of Sociology	FAS		Race/Ethnicity; Migration; Political Sociology; Experimental Methods
Bart Bonikowski	Associate Professor of Sociology	FAS		Politics; Culture; Nationalism; Populism; Radicalism; Relational Survey Methods; Experiments; Computational Text Analysis; Comparative Research
Yzette Lanier	Assistant Professor	Nursing		Adolescents and Young Adults; Couples; HIV/STI prevention; Sexual and Reproductive Health; Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations
L. Taylor Phillips	Assistant Professor	Stern		Privilege; Inequality; Diversity; Inclusion; Race, Gender, Social Class; Culture; Hierarchy and Power

NYU Partners

Learn about some of the other offices across NYU engaged in combatting inequality in its many forms below.

The Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation

NYU’s commitment to building and strengthening a university-wide culture of diversity, inclusion, and equity has led to the creation of the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation. As part of the Office of the President, the Office of Global Inclusion provides expert consultation, resources, and innovative strategies to help guide the University—and its uniquely global and diverse student, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni communities—toward a more inclusive future.

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Strategies to Reduce Inequality Initiative (SRI)

Persistent inequality requires a multidimensional approach to identify meaningful, sustainable solutions. The SRI faculty group explores ways to advance research, works collaboratively with practitioners, brings speakers to campus, and identifies courses that help students deepen their understanding of inequality and how to promote equality and inclusion — all with the intention of creating new knowledge to impact policies, systems, and communities.

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