Current Projects
This page is updated on a regular basis to spotlight the current projects of our CES fellows.
Jasmine Benjamin (2019-2020)
After completing her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago, Jasmine became a Program Associate with the Hyams Foundation in...
Sadé Lindsay (2020-2021)
Sadé Lindsay is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the Ohio State University. Her mixed methods dissertation project, The Prison Credential...
Silas Grant (2019-2020)
Silas Grant completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 2021. Silas’s dissertation and current book project, Patchwork: Land,...
Daanika Gordon (2017-2018)
Daanika Gordon completed her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at...
C.N.E. Corbin (2019-2020)
Dr. C.N.E. Corbin studies the relationships between society and nature within the built environment by investigating the concept of the green city...
Joss Greene (2019-2020)
Joss Greene is completing his dissertation in Sociology at Columbia University. It is entitled, "Gender Bound: Prisons and the Emergence of Modern...
Madeleine Pape (2018-2019)
Madeleine Pape is a 2018-2019 CES Fellow who completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August, 2019. Her...
Idit Fast (2018-2019)
Idit Fast completed her dissertation at Rutgers University in 2019. She is currently an assistant professor at the department of education at Ben...
Chris Herring (2018-2019)
Chris Herring is a 2018-2019 CES fellow who is a doctoral candidate of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley, where he's affiliated...
Ayca Zayim (2016-2017)
Ayca Zayim completed her dissertation at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018. It was entitled, “How Financial Power Really Works: Central Banks...
Michael Aguirre (2017-2018)
Michael D. Aguirre is a postdoctoral fellow with the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University. In Fall 2021, he will be an assistant...
Deisy Del Real (2018-2019)
Deisy Del Real completed her dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019. She is a postdoctoral fellow and forthcoming...
Brian Callaci (2017-2018)
Brian Callaci completed his dissertation at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2019. It was entitled, “The Historical and Legal Creation of a...