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V FELLOWS IN THEIR FIELDS Andrea Louise Campbell ’88, RI ’13
When Andrea Louise Campbell, a College alumna
and a professor of political science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, arrived at the Radcliffe Institute,
she was prepared to advance her project investigating the
budgetary effects of the Great Recession on American states.
She has done that—and more.
After a family member was seriously injured in a car accident,
Campbell was inspired to take on another project.
She’s currently writing a book that explores how meanstested
programs vary across the United States. To qualify for
a programs like Medicaid, recipients must be poor and stay
poor, and eligibility and benefit levels vary greatly from state
to state—a situation she calls “50 worlds of social
assistance.”
The 2012–2013 Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow,
Campbell points out there is overlap in her two projects:
whether it is the economic decisions of decades ago or
health care finance issues of today, she is studying the
policy decisions of individual states. And she brought them
together in one place—the Radcliffe Institute.
Campbell looks
at the policy
decisions of
individual states,
from budgets to
health care.
Photograph by webb chappell