President
Russell Sage Foundation
112 East 64th St
New York,
NY
USA
10065
sheldond@rsage.org
Biographical Sketch:
Sheldon H. Danziger is the President of the Russell Sage Foundation which supports social science research “for the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” He is also Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. He was Director of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a John Kenneth Galbraith Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and was a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
Danziger’s research focuses on social welfare policies and on the effects of economic, demographic, and public policy changes on trends in poverty and inequality. Among his publications, he is the co-author of America Unequal (with Peter Gottschalk, 1995) and co-editor of Legacies of the War on Poverty (with Martha J. Bailey, 2013).