Former WREI Fellow to read in Washington

Robin Rogers-Dillon to read on Thursday, November 3, 2005.

Please join former WREI Fellow Robin Rogers-Dillon as she returns to Washington, DC, and reads from and discusses her recent book, “The Welfare Experiments: Politics and Policy Evaluation,” at Riverby Books on Thursday, November 3 at 7 p.m. The reading will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. Copies of the book will be for sale and can be signed by the author.

Through observation, surveys, and dozens of interviews, Rogers-Dillon argues in "The Welfare Experiments" that the welfare experiments of the 1990s served as a powerful political tool that allowed few to argue successfully against welfare policy changes. With this analysis, she offers insight into how social policy is made in the United States and how that process is changing for the better and the worse.

Dr. Robin H. Rogers-Dillon is an assistant professor of sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. From 1998-2000, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. Her research interests include politics, health, poverty, and public policy. Rogers-Dillon has conducted research on the politics of policy debate, adoption, and evaluation. Her work has been published in Society, Social Problems, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Newsday, among others. In 1995 and 1996, she worked for Rep. Charlie Rangel as a WREI Congressional Fellow on Women and Public Policy. She has also served as a consultant to the City of New York and the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.