Visiting Scholars Program
The Visiting Scholars Program brings leading researchers to Northwestern for short residencies, fostering collaboration and intellectual exchange with IPR faculty and students. These scholars are chosen for their exceptional research in one or more of IPR’s core research areas and their proven track record in connecting with policymakers, community organizations, and/or the broader public.
Each quarter, a scholar specializing in a different research area is invited, ensuring opportunities to explore a diversity of perspectives and topics across IPR’s community of researchers.
Visiting scholars interact with IPR faculty and students by presenting in our signature Fay Lomax Cook Monday research colloquia and through other events and meetings to jumpstart collaborations. These interactions advance the exchange of knowledge, nurture potential partnerships, and help transmit IPR faculty work back to the visiting scholar’s home university.
Bridget Goosby, May 2026
Bridget Goosby is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. A sociologist and demographer, Goosby’s research focuses on health disparities, race and ethnicity, biosociology, and the life course. Her work investigates the “biosocial” pathways through which social environments and racial discrimination impact physiological health and aging. She is an elected Lifetime Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Sociological Research Association. She co-directs the LifeHD Research Lab. She received her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University in sociology and demography.
Find out more about Professor Goosby here.
Brendan Nyhan, October 2025
Brendan Nyhan is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor and Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. A political scientist, Nyhan’s research focuses on misperceptions and conspiracy theories, political communication and the media, and political scandal and corruption. His work includes examining misperceptions about politics and healthcare, as well as their influence on public opinion and policy. Nyhan has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Anti-Defamation League. He co-founded Bright Line Watch, a nonpartisan initiative that monitors the health of democracy in the United States. He received his PhD from Duke University in political science.
Find out more about Professor Nyhan here.
Stefanie DeLuca: IPR's Inaugural Visiting Scholar, May 2025
Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. DeLuca is a sociologist who directs the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab and is a research principal at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights. She examines how housing, neighborhoods, and education shape youth and family outcomes. She received her PhD from Northwestern in 2002 in education and social policy.