Sheldon H. Danziger

Sheldon H. Danziger is President Emeritus of the Russell Sage Foundation and Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy Emeritus at the University of Michigan. 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 been a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Between 1989 and 2013, Danziger directed the Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, a training and mentorship program for developing the careers of emerging scholars from underrepresented groups. Danziger studies the effects of economic changes, public policies and demographic changes on trends in poverty and income inequality. His books include America Unequal, co-authored with Peter Gottschalk; Detroit Divided, co-authored with Reynolds Farley and Harry Holzer, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, and Legacies of the War on Poverty co-edited with Martha Bailey.