Six Named AAPSS Fellows for 2025
The American Academy of Political and Social Science, or AAPSS, will welcome six scholars as 2025 fellows this fall. The AAPSS selects a small group of scholars and public intellectuals as fellows each year, recognizing their contributions to social science, public policy, and public discourse.
The new fellows will be installed in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in October. Not including the new cohort, there are 168 fellows. Individual fellowships are named for a renowned scholar or policymaker, such as Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, W.E.B. Du Bois or Frances Perkins.
“In various ways,” said AAPSS President Marta Tienda, “these scholar-leaders have demonstrated how much social science has to offer: rigorous inquiry into some of our society’s most vexing challenges and evidence that can inform public policy moving forward. We are deeply appreciative of their contributions and very pleased to give them this well-earned recognition.”
Xavier de Souza Briggs is an award-winning social scientist and a trusted voice in both public and private sectors. An expert in inclusive economic growth, the consequences of housing opportunity and spatial segregation, and social change, he has influenced policymakers and philanthropists as well as the general public. Briggs is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Kenneth Boulding Fellow.
Michael Jones-Correa is a political scientist whose research on political mobilization and civic engagement among Latine immigrants has reoriented understandings of this underrepresented minority and dispelled myths and mischaracterizations of immigrant experiences more generally. Jones-Correa is currently President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Robert A. Dahl Fellow.
Goodwin Liu is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California who previously served as a professor and associate dean at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. His academic expertise lies in constitutional and education law, and he continues to teach the former as a visiting professor in institutions across the country. Liu will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Roger Wilkins Fellow.
Sharon Parrott is the president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she has worked in varying capacities over the past three decades. Her extensive academic work, testimonies before Congress, and stints at the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Health and Human Services have substantially influenced federal policy on the alleviation of poverty. Parrott will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow.
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is internationally recognized for her research on inequality, public policy, and human service institutions, particularly as it pertains to those living with HIV/AIDS. At the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, she is Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, Jean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and a professor of sociology. Watkins-Hayes will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Sara McLanahan Fellow.
James P. Ziliak has lent his expertise in socioeconomic well-being—particularly regarding poverty, food insecurity, and tax policy—to the design of groundbreaking policies like the American Rescue Plan’s expansion of the Child Tax Credit. He is currently Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics and University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky, where he is also founding director of the Center for Poverty Research. Ziliak will be the AAPSS’s 2025 Rebecca Blank Fellow.
