2008–2009 Meet the New IRP Affiliate Seminar Series

This seminar series provides an opportunity for poverty researchers who recently joined the ranks of IRP affiliates to introduce themselves and their research interests and to present some of their recent work. There will be time at the end of each seminar for audience questions.

IRP’s ever-growing community of leading poverty researchers affiliated with the Institute currently comprises some 80 scholars at the UW-Madison and more than 50 scholars located at academic and research institutions across the United States. While IRP affiliates represent a broad range of disciplines and research interests, they all share a common desire: to reduce poverty and social inequality.

Thursdays, 12:15-1:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science Building (unless otherwise noted)

September 25, 2008

The Myth of Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Stock-Flow Analysis of Workplace Authority Attainment
Zhen Zeng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

October 30, 2008

The Impact of Fatness on Disability Insurance Application by the Non-Elderly
Maximilian Schmeiser, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison

November 13, 2008

Health Insurance and School Lunch: Covering Poor Kids and Families
Roberta Riportella, Professor and Chair of Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

December 11, 2008

Migration, Poverty and Place in the Context of the Return Migration to the US South
Katherine Curtis, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

January 22, 2009

'[He] Finds Himself in the Most Absolute Destitution:' Disability and Poverty in the 'West,' 1802–1946
Walton O. Schalick, Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Waisman Center, History of Science, and Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and IRP Affiliate

January 29, 2009

Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Scott W. Allard, Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

February 19, 2009

Evaluating the Impact of Financial Education as Part of Public Assistance Programs: Evidence from a Field Experiment
J. Michael Collins , Assistant Professor of Consumer Science, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin–Madison