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.
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, neighborhood, and education shape youth and family outcomes. She received her PhD from Northwestern in 2002 in education and social policy.