Russell Sage Foundation

"The Russell Sage Foundation was established in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United states." It is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research. In its effort to improve the social effectiveness of social research." [1]

Staff (2006)

• Eric Wanner, President
• Madeline Spitaleri, Vice President and Secretary
• Christopher Brogna, Chief Financial Officer
• David Haproff, Director of Communications
• Suzanne Nichols, Director of Publications
• Nicole Radmore, Director of Information Services
• John Lee, Director of Computing Services
• James Beglan, Building Manager
• Aixa Cintron-Velez, Program Officer
• Jitka Maleckova, Program Officer
• Robert M. Solow, Robert K. Merton Scholar

Trustees

Accessed September 2009:

• Kenneth D. Brody, Treasurer - Founding Partner, Taconic Capital Advisors
• W. Bowman Cutter III - Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
• John A. Ferejohn - Carolyn S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
• Larry V. Hedges - Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
• Melvin J. Konner - Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
• Cora B. Marrett - Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation
• Nancy Rosenblum - Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government, Harvard University
• Shelley E. Taylor - Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
• Richard Thaler - Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science, and Director, Center for Decision Research, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
• Eric Wanner - President, Russell Sage Foundation
• Mary C. Waters, Chair - M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Board of trustees (2006)

• Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• Kenneth D. Brody, Founding Partner, Taconic Capital Advisors
• Christine K. Cassel, President, American Board of Internal Medicine
• Thomas D. Cook, Chair, Joan and Serepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice, and Professor of Sociology, Psychology, Education, and Social Policy, Northwestern University
• Robert E. Denham, Treasurer, Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson
• Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• John A. Ferejohn, Carolyn S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
• Larry V. Hedges, Stella M. Rowley Professor of Education, Psychology, and Sociology, University of Chicago
• Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vice Chair, Professor of Government and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and Program and Center Director, Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
• Melvin J. Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine
• Alan B. Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Princeton University
• Cora B. Marrett, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Wisconsin System Administration
• Eric Wanner, President, Russell Sage Foundation
• Mary C. Waters, Chair, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Former Chief Operating Officers

• Shelby Harrison - 1931-48
• Donald Young - 1948-63
• Orville Brim - 1963-72
• Hugh F. Cline - 1972-76
• Aaron Wildavsky - 1977-78
• David B. Truman - 1978-79
• Marshall A. Robinson - 1979-1986
• Eric Wanner - 1986-Present

Criticism

• Jay Schulman, Carol Brown, and Roger Kahn, "Report on the Russell Sage Foundation," The Insurgent Sociologist, 2 (Summer 1972), pp. 2-34.

Schulman, Brown, and Kahn identify twelve super-stars of research who over the years obtained 32 % of the $16.4 million distributed in extramural grants, these were in order of their dollar support from the Foundation: Loyd Ohlin, Morris Janowitz, Joseph Ben David, Harry Ball, Philip Selznick, Henry Cohen (New York City), David French, Edward Volkardt, Richard Schwartz, Lawrence Kohlberg, Sol Levine, and Edward Suchman. (p.11)

Other Books

• Ruth Crocker Mrs. Russell Sage: women's activism and philanthropy in gilded age and
• Paul Sarnoff, Russell Sage: The Money King (Obolensky, 1965). Time review.

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

• William Julius Wilson - former chair
• Oscar M. Ruebhausen - former chair (1965-80)
• Herma Hill Kay - former chair (1980-84)
• John S. Reed - former chair (1984-87)
• Gary E. MacDougal - former chair (1987-91)
• E. Whitney Debevoise
• F. Emerson Andrews
• Wilbert Moore
• Eleanor Bernert
• David Goslin
• Leonard Cottrell
• Stanton Wheeler
• In 1967: "The Foundation’s Visiting Scholars program is inaugurated with the appointments of Alex Inkeles (Stanford) and Robert K. Merton (Columbia). Other visiting scholars in the early years of the program include futurist Alvin Toffler, sociologist Daniel Bell, and Public Interest editor, Irving Kristol."
• Ellen Condliffe Lagemann - former trustee
• In 1982: "The Foundation establishes its new headquarters on East 64th Street in the former home of the Asia Society, designed by distinguished American architect, Philip Johnson."
• Edward S. Greenberg