Sarah C. Halpern-Meekin
Sociology and Social Policy
A Relationship Legacy: The Intergenerational Transmission of Marriage and Divorce
Sarah Halpern-Meekin is a doctoral candidate in sociology and social policy at Harvard University. Her dissertation research examines the relationship views and skills of high school students, specifically focusing on the ability of high schoolbased relationship and marriage education courses to affect those attitudes and abilities. Her additional areas of research focus on family structure, adolescence, and government assistance programs, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit. She has received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award in the Family Section of the American Sociological Association.
She earned her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University.
Laurie McIntosh
Anthropology
Impossible Presence: The Cultural Politics of Integration, Citizenship-Making and National Belonging in Contemporary Norway
Laurie McIntosh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology at Harvard University, where she is also pursuing film and visual studies.
McIntosh is completing her dissertation, in which she explores the ethics and cultural politics of "new immigrant" integration, national identities, and the gendered, raced, and sexualized character of state governance in Northern Europe, especially Norway. McIntosh received a BA in literature and studio art from Drew University and an MA in race and gender studies from Fordham University. She is currently a fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Holly Ming
Public Policy
Labor Market Transition of Second-Generation Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities
Holly Ming is a PhD candidate in the Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the education and job market of migrant workers' children who reside in urban China. A recipient of the Shum Fellowship, she spent the past year in the field in Beijing and Shanghai, conducting interviews and surveys. She is also a doctoral fellow in the Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Program. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard College, with a focus on the economics of education.
Daniel Schlozman
Political Science
The Making of Partisan Majorities
Daniel Schlozman is a PhD candidiate in political science at Harvard University. He will spend the year at Radcliffe completing his dissertation, which is titled "The Making of Partisan Majorities: Parties, Anchoring Groups, and Electoral Coalitions." In it, he asks why American social movements have—or have not—allied with major political parties, focusing especially on two cases that have shaped the course of twentieth-century party politics: organized labor and the New Deal Democratic coalition, and conservative evangelicals and the GOP since the 1970s. Schlozman holds an AB magna cum laude in social studies from Harvard College.
2009–2010 Graduate Fellows
2007–2008 Graduate Fellows
Photos by Tony Rinaldo
