Following many months of break due to the Covid pandemic, we are very pleased to welcome this year our three first Visiting colleagues.

Léa Pessin is an assistant professor of Sociology and Demography at the Pennsylvania State University, where she is also affiliated with the Population Research Institute. Her research focuses on the unequal consequences of the gender revolution on women’s work and family outcomes across class, race-ethnicity, and geographic contexts. During her stay at OSC, she will collaborate with Zachary Van Winkle on joint projects revolving around the intersectional consequences of work and family life courses in comparative perspective.

Website: https://leapessin.com/
Recent publications:

• Pessin, L., R. Rutigliano, and M. H. Potter. (2022). Time, Money, and Entry into Parenthood: The Role of (Grand) Parental Support. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(1): 101-120. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12782
• Newmyer, L., A. M. Verdery, R. Margolis, and L. Pessin (2021). Measuring Older Adult Loneliness across Countries. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(7): 1408–1414. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa109
• Pessin, L. (2018). Changing Gender Norms and Marriage Dynamics in the United States. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(1):25-41. DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12444

Anna Carolina Venturini is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning – CEBRAP's International Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Program (IPP). She received a Ph.D. in Political Science at the Institute for Social and Political Studies – IESP of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) in 2019. In 2017 she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Her research interests lie at the intersections of affirmative action and public policies, race, ethnicity, gender, and institutional change. She uses mixed methods, including primary surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews.
At OSC, Venturini is working on a comparative study about the affirmative action policies implemented by Sciences Po (Conventions Éducation Prioritaire, studied by Marco Oberti) in France and the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil. The goal is to understand the policies' formulation and implementation processes over the last years, looking at patterns of institutional change and identifying differences and similarities concerning social and racial inclusion.

Website: http://annaventurini.com.br/
Recent publications:

• Affirmative action for Brazilian graduate programs: patterns of institutional change, Revista de Administração Pública, vol. 55, n° 6, Nov-dec 2021 https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-761220200631
• Affirmative action policy in graduate studies: The case of public universities, Cadernos de Pesquisa, vol. 50, n° 177, July-September 2020 [PT] https://doi.org/10.1590/198053147491
• Comparing diffusion patterns in affirmative action policies for graduate education in Brazil, Journal of Comparative Policy Analyses: Research and Practice, Published 18 January 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2021.2011608

Mauricio Ernica, is Professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil), Faculty of Education. He is also researcher at the Public Policy Study Centre of the State University of Campinas (Núcleo de Estudos de Políticas Públicas - NEPP). Until end of July 2022, he works together with Agnès van Zanten on scholar inequalities and their relationship with social inequality in Brazil.
Regarding the São Paulo case, he published:

• "The school, the metropolis and the vulnerable neighboorhood"  (or Portuguese full version) and
• "Educational inequalities in metropolises: territory, socioeconomic status, race and gender".

He leads a collective project to produce an indicator of learning inequality usable for each Brazilian municipalities (IDeA). https://portalidea.org.br/.