William McAllister contributed to the Obama Presidency Oral History as a scholar and interviewer, consulting a project design, and personally conducting interviews with a dozen narrators on subjects including science, the arts, and foreign relations.
He is the former Director of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows Program. McAllister’s research uses methods of trajectory analysis to study the experience of homeless people and the effects of policies and programs on their lives. He is also analyzing the relationship between experimentally designed research and policymaking and program design and carrying out a long-term study on transformations in the recruitment structure of the U.S. state. His work has appeared in the American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Public Health, Social Services Review, among other journals, and has been funded by NSF and NIH, among other government agencies, and by Langeloth and JP Morgan Chase among other foundations and nonprofits.
