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Research Associate, Director of FASR Internship Program
Marilyn Klotz is completing her Joint Ph.D in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Her research interest is in social policy, with a particular emphasis on changes and their effects in public assistance programs. She is currently involved in work on a long-term study of welfare reform in Indiana. This is her third year as a research associate with the Institute for Family and Social Responsibility.

Research Associate, Impact of Welfare Reform Study
David Bradyis 6^th year PhD student in the Department of Sociology.  In addition to the welfare reform project, his research interests include: comparative political economy, poverty and social policy, political sociology, stratification and inequality, and labor.  He received a BA (Sociology) from the University of Minnesota in 1994, and a MA (Sociology) from Indiana University in 1997.  His published or forthcoming articles are titled “Income, Economic Voting and Long-Term Political Change” in Social Forces (with Clem Brooks) and “Deindustrialization and Poverty: Manufacturing Decline and AFDC Recipiency in Lake County, 1964-1993” in Sociological Forum.

Research Associate, Impact of Welfare Reform Study
Gaamaa Hishigsuren is a MPA student graduating in May 2000. Her research interests are in social policy analysis, especially of poverty policy and program evaluation in less developing countries. She is currently working on a research design of an impact assessment for a micro credit program in South India and a MicroStart program in Mongolia. Gaamaa did her summer internship at FASR working on the Impacts of Welfare Reform