2016-2017 Fellows | Scholarship Matters - Center for Engaged Scholarship - CES https://cescholar.org Our goal is to offer a progressive view of how scholarship is shaping the critical cultural debates and policy decisions that will determine the future of American society. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:43:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 George Aumoithe, PhD https://cescholar.org/teams/george-aumoithe/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 01:00:34 +0000 http://ces.communicationgeeks.com/?post_type=jv_team_members&p=392 George Aumoithe’s research shows how the AIDS epidemic should be understood in the context of 1970s austerity, which exacerbated inequality and undermined the nation’s disaster preparedness.  His study analyzes public policy, health institutions, and grassroots advocacy to assess healthcare’s tenuous place within the nation’s quite limited welfare state.

]]> Megan Brown, PhD https://cescholar.org/teams/megan-brown/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 00:00:49 +0000 http://ces.communicationgeeks.com/?post_type=jv_team_members&p=416 Megan Brown’s (she/her) study investigates the strategic and practical mechanisms through which labor unions, worker and community organizations, and policy makers advanced the $15/hour minimum wages across the U.S.  She examines the locally-based strategies employed by labor organizations and the ways these strategies varied across locations so that we can understand how this significant change occurred.

]]> Juyoung Lee, PhD https://cescholar.org/teams/juyoung-lee/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:00:03 +0000 http://ces.communicationgeeks.com/?post_type=jv_team_members&p=418 Juyoung Lee contributes to research on environmental inequalities by examining large-scale determinants of local environmental outcomes.  She uses sophisticated quantitative techniques to explore the consequences for local communities of decisions made at corporate headquarters.

]]> Ayca Zayim, PhD https://cescholar.org/teams/ayca-zayim/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:00:23 +0000 http://ces.communicationgeeks.com/?post_type=jv_team_members&p=420 Ayca Zayim completed her dissertation in 2018 at the University of Wisconsin. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College.

Ayca focuses on the relationship between central banks in emerging economies and the financial community to reveal how financial power operates. 

Through a study of central banks in Turkey and South Africa, she illuminates both the degrees of maneuver and the constraints on economic policy in these emerging economies that contend with the danger of sudden outflows of capital.

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