Inequality, Poverty, Power, and Social Justice (IPPSOJ)

Affiliated Faculty and Staff

• Linda Aleci, Department of Art and Art History, Professor
• Antonio Callari, Department of Economics, Professor Emeritus, IPPSOJ Community Liaison
• Patrick Fleming, Department of Economics, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
• Zeshan Ismat, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, International Studies
• Danish Khan, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, IPPSOJ Co-Director
• Tami Lantz, Department of Economics, Office Coordinator
• Tony Maynard, Department of Economics, Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Leanne Roncolato, Department of Economics, Associate Professor
• Adeem Suhail, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
• Troy Walters, Economic Research Associate, Philadelphia
• Nicole Jones-Young, Department of Business, Organizations, and Society, Associate Professor
• Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Department of Economics, Professor, IPPSOJ Co-Director

Affiliated Students

• Sarwesh Acharya ’26
• Lucas Cuervo ’24, Economics
• Theza Friedman '24, Economics, Anthropology, International Studies
• Shubham Jha ’26
• Ritesh K.C. ’26
• Linh Ha Nguyen ’25, Economics
• Nancy Nguyen ’26
• Alfee Rubayet ’24, Economics, Government
• Apurva Subedi ’24, Economics, Mathematics, Music Performance

• Inequality, Power, and Justice (Zein-Elabdin)
• Political Economy of Inequality (Khan)
• Political Economy of Urban Deverlopment (Khan)
• Race and Equality (Roncolato)
• Public Policy, Poverty, and Human Capability (Fleming)

• Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster (CSEwL)
• City of Lancaster Open Data
• The Spanish American American Civic Association (SACA)
• Church World Service
• The Economic Policy Institute
• The Economic Hardship Project
• The Poor People’s Campaign
• The National Economic Association
• The International Association for Feminist Economics
  
• The Economics Observatory

• "The Resilience of Patriarchal Systems," the Annual Van Dyck Lecture, Professor Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, October 26, 2022
• “The Year 2050: Resources are Scarce and the World is Scared,” a student-faculty discussion with the Economics Club, Day of Dialogue, October 6, 2021.
• “Sadie Alexander: Race, Economic Uncertainty, and the Rights of Citizenship,” the Annual Wayne K. Van Dyck lecture delivered by Nina Banks, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, and President of the National Economic Association, November 4, 2021.

• A Lancaster Social Justice Index – This project investigates the state of social justice in Lancaster based on indicators of poverty; urban planning and development; refugee resettlement and integration; and gender, racial, and environmental justice. Funded by the Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster, and the Committee on Grants. Contributing students: Gabriel Anthony-Kemp ’22, Gabriel Berdett Laila Carneiro ’20, Jillian Ireland ’21, Nithya Ramaswamy ’22, Lingfeng Shan ’21; Faculty advisors: Aleci, Callari, Zein-Elabdin.
• A Lancaster Audit: Toward a Lancaster Moral Budget – This project, carried out in collaboration with Lancaster’s Put People First, PA, aims to produce Lancaster County and City budgets adapted from the Poor People’s Moral Budget issued by the National Poor People’s Campaign. Funded by the Center for Sustained Engaged with Lancaster, and the Economics Department. Contributing students: Jadaic Admir ’20, Margot Rathke ’20, Lingfeng Shan ’20, Isaac Yu ’20; Faculty advisors: Aleci, Callari.
• Gentrification in the City of Lancaster, PA – Research on gentrification has focused almost exclusively on major metropolitan centers. Much less analysis has been done on small “legacy cities” like Lancaster. This project analyzes patterns of real estate activity and neighborhood change in key districts in Lancaster to sharpen the empirical and theoretical lens through which to examine processes of gentrification as they may have formed in the city over the past 15 years. The project also investigates the discursive construction of this phenomenon through an analysis of public discourse on gentrification. Contributing student: Davis Cook ’21; Faculty advisor: Aleci.

Student Research

 

Margot Rathke presents at the October 2109 Research Fair 

• “How Power Works” – Margot Rathke ’20. This project examined linkages between institutional and economic patterns in Lancaster City and County. It investigated the major institutions with powers to develop, influence, and or enforce policies pertaining to poverty and economic development, whether these institutions are public, private, or public-private-partnerships working in policy making and implementation. Advisors: Callari, Zein-Elabdin.
• “The Effect of Decision Timing to Avoid the Environmental Risk in Threshold Public Goods Games with Inequality: An Experimental Study” – Isaac Yu ’20. Independent Study F2019-S2020. Advisor: Roomets.
• “Race and Gender of Adoption in Capitalist America” – Anna Schutt ’20. Independent Study S2020. Advisor: Roncolato.
• “Social Justice Index: Healthcare in Lancaster” – Lingfeng Shan ’20. Independent Study S2020. Advisors: Callari, Zein-Elabdin.