Grant Recipients
 
   
Publications Assisted by Grants

Grant Recipients by Year

Grant Recipients 2007

Nazli Avdan, Duke University, Political Science
Border Security Policies and the Territorialization of States in a Globalizing World
[Recipient of the Harold D. Lasswell Award in International Relations and Foreign Affairs]

Christopher Andrew Bail, Harvard University, Sociology
Terrified: Counter-Terrorism Policy and Collective Memory in the United States and Great Britain

Quintin H. Beazer, Ohio State University, Political Science
Supplying Insecure Property Rights: The Case of Post-Communist Russia

Deborah Lynn Becher, Princeton University, Sociology
Fair Property Policy: Lessons from Eminent Domain for Private Development in Philadelphia, 1997-2006

William McCrea Cavert, Northwestern University, History
Making Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Society in Early Modern London
[Recipient of the Martinus Nijhoff Award in Policy Implications of Science]

Caitlin Cross-Barnet, John Hopkins University, Sociology
The Successful Black Marriage Study

Jeffrey Edward Engels, University of Melbourne, Australia, Development Studies
Exit Strategies: A Post-Soviet Armenian Case Study

Ashley M. Fox, Columbia University, School of Public Health
Poverty or Inequality as the Underlying Cause of HIV in Africa? The HIV-Poverty Thesis Re-examined
[Recipient of the Robert K. Merton Award in Social Theory and Public Policy]

Lauren Bree Movius, University of Southern California, School of Communication
Global Governance of the Internet: Towards a Multi-Stakeholder Policy Paradigm?
[Recipient of the Joshua Feigenbaum Award in Mass Communication Policy]

Robert J. Riggs, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, Arabic and Islamic Studies
The Socio-Political Philosophy of Shi’ite Religious Leadership and Its Social and Public Policy Implications for the Transnational Shi’ite Community

Lawrence Peter Rubin, University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science
Ideology, Power, and Threat Perception: Why States Fear Islamist Regimes
[Recipient of the John L. Stanley Award in the Political and Ethical Foundations of Policy Research]

David S. Siroky, Duke University, Political Science
Secession and Survival: Averting Conflict, Promoting Peace

Jennifer Elaine Sykes, Harvard University, Sociology and Social Policy
Paychecks and Parenting: Financial Decision-Making among Working Poor Parents
[Recipient of the Eli Ginzberg Award in Health, Welfare, and Urban Policy]

Huong Trieu, University of Michigan, Political Science
Building a Welfare State: A Case Study of Urban Healthcare Reform for Migrants in China

Grant Recipients 2006

Katrin B. Anacker, Virginia Tech, City and Regional Planning
Upkeep Decisions of Homeowners: Psychology of Home Investment

Blake C. Andrew, McGill University, Political Science
Media Shortcuts: The Supply and Demand of Political Information
[Recipient of the Feigenbaum Award in Mass Communication]

Aldo Civico, Columbia University in the City of New York, Anthropology
Demobilization Process of Paramilitary in Medellin (Colombia)

Qin Gao, Fordham University, Social Economics
The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition

Margaret Garb, Washington University in St. Louis, History
Housing the Urban Poor: Community Development Corporations

Alexandra Gillies, University of Cambridge, Social and Political Sciences
Governance Reform in Africa’s Oil Sector

Maria Agustina Giraudy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Political Science
Undemocratic Regimes after Democratization: Argentina and Mexico

Jennifer E.M. Hasty, University of Pennsylvania, Cultural Anthropology
Fighting Corruption in Africa: Ghana and Beyond

Molly J. Hurley-Depret, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Anthropology
Community and Violence after Peace Accords in Northern Ireland

Joy L. Kraybill, The George Washington University, Health Policy
Prosecuting Medicare Providers under the False Claims Act
[Recipient of the Ginzberg Award in Health and Welfare Issues in Urban Settings]

Serena Laws, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Political Science
Medical Debt, Legal Access, and Citizenship in the United States
[Recipient of the Martinus Nijhoff Award in Policy Implications of Science]

Jennifer F. Lieb, Princeton University, Politics
Representation of Undocumented Immigrants in Democracies

Avi M. Spiegel, University of Oxford, Near and Middle Eastern Studies
In the Shadows of Violence: Islamism, Democratization and the State
[Recipient of the Stanley Award in Political and Ethical Foundations of Policy]

Lori Wiebold, University of Kansas, Sociology
County Government and Community Survival in Era of Globalization
[Recipient of the Merton Award in Relations between Social Theory and Public Policy]

Grant Recipients 2005

Joel M. Caplan, University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice
The Effect of Victim Input on Parole Release Decisions

Joseph A. Conti, University of California at Santa Barbara, Sociology
Determinants of Dispute Resolution Outcomes in the World Trade Organization
[Recipient of the John L. Stanley Award in Political Ethics for 2005]

Rafaela Mirjam Dancygier, Yale University, Political Science
The Political Economy of Immigrant Integration in Europe

Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of Pennsylvania, Sociology
Men’s Multi-Partnered Fertility: Implications for Paternal Involvement

Rodney Harrell, University of Maryland, Urban Studies and Planning
Modern Segregation: Suburbanization and the Black Middle Class

Dorle Hellmuth, Catholic University of America, World Politics
Effects of Government Structures on Foreign Policy Decision-Making

Ann Marie Hickey, University of Kansas, Sociology
Graying of an Epidemic: Social Policy and HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention
[Recipient of the Eli Ginzberg Award in Health and Welfare for 2005]

Andrea Morrell, City University of New York/Graduate Center, Anthropology
Public Safety and Making a Living in an American Prison Town

Liliokanaio Peaslee, Brandeis University, Politics and Social Policy
Agents of Social Change? Police Engagement in Social Policy

Patrick Thomas Sharkey, Harvard University, Sociology and Social Policy
Social Isolation and Neighborhood Mobility over Childhood
[Recipient of the Robert K. Merton Award in Social Theory and Public Policy for 2005]

Marketa Valkova, Brandeis University, Politics and Social Policy
Human Rights in U.S., British, and French Foreign Policies

Grant Recipients 2004

Catherine K. Fennell, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Public Housing in Chicago: Emplacing Welfare and Well Being in Urban America

Thurston Domina, City University of New York, Department of Anthropology
The New Cosmopolitans: Educational Segregation in the United States

Maria Candelaria Garay, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Political Science
Social Policy Regimes in Newly Liberalized Economics

Shang E. Ha, University of Chicago, Political Science
Membership, Friendship, and Social Context: Interracial Contact and Public Opinion toward Immigrants and Immigration Control

Panle Jia, Yale University, Department of Economics
What Happens when Wal-Mart Comes to Town: Big Retailers Competition Effects on Small Retailers

Kristine Eileen Mitchell, Princeton University, Department of Politics
Trade Union Support for European Integration and the European Social Agenda

Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington, Political Science department
Utilizing Religious Law as a Means of Progressing Human Rights in Illiberal Politics

Paige Skiba, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Economics
Jeremy Tobacman, Harvard University, Department of Economics
After the "Last Resort": Investigating the Effects of Payday Loans

Amy Melissa Widestrom, Syracuse University, Political Science Department
Economic Inequality: Its Spatial Concentration and Voter Participation

Joseph Eugene Yi, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
Authoritative Churches and Racial Interaction

Grant Recipients 2003

Roberto Abadie, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Department of Anthropology
A Guinea Pig’s Wage Risk and Commodization in Pharmaceutical Research in America

Jason Paul Casellas, Princeton University, Department of Politics
From State Houses to Congress; Latino Representation in the United States
[recipient of the John L. Stanley Award for 2003]

Nadejda Chapkina, Georgia State University, Department of Sociology
(Re)Imagining the Post-Soviet Nation: Analyzing Anti-trafficking Campaigns in Russia and the Ukraine

Howard Lee Cheek, Jr., Lee University and
The United Methodist Church, Department of Political Science
Federal Control and Social Justice: The Crime Bill and the US Patriot Act in Action

Fen Lin, The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Dancing with Hands Cuffed: Media Commercialization and Political Development in China

Dejan Lukic, Columbia University in the City of New York, Department of Anthropology
Human Smuggling: Everyday Crime in Southeast Europe

Sawa Omori, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Political Science
Origins of Financial Liberalization in Emerging Markets

Nicole C. Quon, Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine
Decisions in Scientific Agencies: How Do the NIH and the FDA Balance Expert Opinions,
Changing Agendas, and Political Pressure?
[recipient of the of the Eli Ginzberg Award for 2003]

Rebecca Elizabeth Sager, University of Arizona, Department of Sociology
The Politics of Religious Promise: State Implementation of Charitable Choice Practices

Erkan Saka, Rice University, Department of Anthropology
Mediating the European Union: Making of the EU News in Turkey

Marc M. Sanford, The University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Consumption and Urban Neighborhoods: Leading Social Indicators of
Neighborhood Health, Stability, and Transition


Grant Recipients 2002

Sunil DasGupta, The Brookings Institution
Paramilitaries and Democracy

Joseph E. Davis, University of Virginia
Paxil and Anxiety: Social and Ethical Implications of the New Pharmacology

Kihong Eom, University of Kentucky
The Democracy of Political Contributions in the American States

Drew Halfmann, The University of Michigan
Closing the Gap: Explaining the Content, Heterogeneity, and Survival of Minority Health Policy Proposals

Yinan He, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Overcoming the Shadows of the Past: Interstate Reconciliation after Traumatic Conflicts

Sallie L. Hughes, The University of Miami
Mediocracy?: Evolving Media-State Relations in Post-Authoritarian Mexico

Galma Jahic, Rutgers University
Trafficking in Women: Thinking Globally, Researching Locally

Christopher Mele, State University of New York at Buffalo
Defining the Eligible Public Housing Tenant in New York City

Elizabeth Zeldin, New York City Independent Budget Office
Effects of Federalization on Municipal Finance in Russia’s Urban Areas

Edume Zoco, University of Notre Dame
The Collapse of Party Systems in Western Europe and Latin America


Grant Recipients 2001

Ana Alejandro Germani, Argentine National Library
From Antifascism to the Immunization of Sociology in Argentina

Cora Sol Goldstein, University of Chicago
Imaging Human Rights: Film and Reeducation in American Occupied Germany

Athena S. Leoussi, University of Reading
Cultural Policies and the Development of Czech National Art

Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University, South Bend
Crime in the Russian Revolution of 1917

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, University of Pennsylvania
Citizen Savers: Working Households and Financial Institutions: 1830-1930

Marc David Weiner, Princeton University – Survey Research Center
Parties in Administration: A Comprehensive Model of Party Responsibility

Christal Killan Whelan, Boston University
Agonshu: A Japanese New Religion


Grant Recipients 2000

Amy Eisenberg, University of Arizona
Ethnoecological Studies in Andean Communities of Chile

Antoinette Handley, Princeton University
Business Sector and Economic Policy Making: Four African Cases

Sheldon D. Pollack, University of Delaware
The Politics of Wealth Transfer Taxation

Martin Jay Sweet, Florida Atlantic University
Affirmative Action in Action: Impact of Minority Enterprise Programs

Joseph Wong, University of Wisconsin
Political Transaction and Welfare Reform in Taiwan and South Korea


Grant Recipients 1999

Mitchell G. Bard, American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Israeli Policy Toward Ethiopian Jews

John J. Furedy, University of Toronto
Merit of Equity: Academic Criteria in Canadian Tenure Stream Advertisements

Jessica Piombo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Political Party System in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Stanley Renshon, The City University of New York
One America?: Presidential Leadership and the Dilemma of Diversity

Dara Z. Strolovitch, Yale University
Closer to a Pluralist Heaven: Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Representation

Huiyan Zhang, The John Hopkins University
Reconsidering the Cost of Business Cycles with Uncertainty and Habit Formation


Grant Recipients 1998

Bruce G. Peabody, University of Texas, Austin
Recovering the Political Constitution: Changing Regimes of Nonjudicial Interpretation

Rossana Castiglioni, University of Notre Dame
Retrenchment vs. Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reforms in Chile and Uruguay

Kim Michelle Williams, Cornell University
Boxed In: The United States Multiracial Movement

Daniel N. Lipson, University of Wisconsin
The New Politics of Affirmative Action: Reforming Admissions Policies in Public Universities

Mark Antonin Drumble, Columbia University
Selfish Altruism or Shared Compact: Mechanisms to Promote Developing
Nation Participation in Environmental Agreements

   

Major Publications Resulting from Grants

[from July 1, 2002 to May 31, 2008]

Bard, Mitchell G., From Tragedy to Triumph: The Politics Behind the Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry, Westport, CT
and London: Preager Publishers, 2002, 217 pp. Grant recipient for “Israeli Policy Toward Ethiopian Jews” (1999).

Castiglioni, Rossana, “The Politics of Retrenchment: The Quandaries of Social Protection Under Military Rule
in Chile, 1973-1990, Latin Americans Politics and Society, Volume 43, No. 4, Winter 2001. Grant recipient for
“Retrenchment versus Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Chile and Uruguay” (1998).

Castiglioni, Rossana, The Politics of Social Policy Change in Chile and Uruguay, New York, NY: Routledge, 2005, 168 pp.
Grant recipient for “Retrenchment versus Maintenance: The Politics of Welfare State Reform in Chile and Uruguay” (1998).

Davis, Joseph E., “Suffering, Pharmaceutical Advertising, and the Face Of Mental Illness,” The Hedgehog Review , Fall, 2006. pp 62-67.

Drumble, Mark A., “Poverty, Wealth, and Obligation in International Environmental Law,” Tulane Law Review,
Volume 76, No. 4, March 2002. 1998 Grant recipient for “Selfish Altrusium or Shared Compact, Mechanisms to Promote
Developing Nation Participation in” Environmental Agreements” (1998).

Gao, Qin.“The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition: Reforms and Impacts on Income Inequality."
Annuals of the New York Academy of Sciences
special volume "Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Health and Human Development:
Scientific Approaches,"
Forthcoming, 2008. Grant recipient for “The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition” (2006).

Garay, Maria Candelaria.“Social Policy and Collective Action: Unemployed Workers, Community Associations and Protest
in Argentina," Politics & Society 35, June 2007. Grant recipient for “Social Policy Regimes in Newly Liberalized Economics” (2004).

Germani, Ana Alejandra, Gino Germani: Del Antifascismo a la Sociolgía. Buenos Aires: Taurus Ediciones, (2004) 412 pp.

Guzzo, Karen, “Competing Obligations, Child Support, and Men’s Visitation with Nonresidential Children,”
was presented at the National Survey of Family Growth Research Conference, October 19-20, 2006,
pending publication at Journal of Family Issues.

Haffmann, Drew, Jesse Rude, Kim Ebert. "The Biomedical Legacy in Minority Health Policy-Making, 1975-2002."
Research in the Sociology of Healthcare, Volume 23
, 245-275, 2005. Grant recipient for
"Closing the Gap: Explaining the Content, Heterogeneity, and Survival of Minority Health Policy Proposals" (2002).

Handley, Antoinette. Business, Government, and the Privatization of the Ashanti Goldmine Company in Ghana.
Prepared for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Grant recipient for Business and Economic Policymaking in Africa: Four African Cases. (2000)

Leoussi, Athena S. “The Ethno-Cultural Roots of National Art,” in Nations and Nationalism (2004). Grant recipient for
“Cultural Policies and the Development of Czech National Art (2001).

Lin, Fen, "Dancing Beautifully but with Hands Cuffed? A Historical Review of Journalism Fromation during Media
Commercialization in China." Perspectives , 7(2): 79-98, 2006. Grant recipient for “Dancing with Hands Cuffed:
Media Commercialization and Political Development in China” (2003).

Peabody, Bruce Garen, Recovering the Political Constitution: Nonjudicial Interpretation, Judicial Supremacy, and the
Separation of Powers
, dissertation at the University of Texas, faculty of the graduate school, 2001 (Ph.D.) 307 pp.
Grant recipient for “Recovering the Political Constitution: Changing Regimes Nonjudicial Interpretation” (1998).

Pollack, Sheldon D., Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,
2003. Grant recipient for “The Politics of Wealth Transfer Taxation” (2000).

Renshon, Stanley A., The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in An Age of Terror, Washington, D.C.:
Georgetown University Press, 2005. 273 pp. Grant recipient for “One America?: Presidential Leadership and the
Dilemma of Diversity” (1999)

Strolovitch, Dara Z., Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics, Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 2007. 284 pp. Grant recipient for “Closer to a Pluralist Heaven:
Advocacy Groups and the Politics of Representation,” (1999)

Whelan, Christal K., “Agonsho: A Japanese New Religion.” Complation of dissertion at Boston University
on Topic of the same title, December 22, 2003.

Williams, Kim, Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America , Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. 208 pp.
Grant recipient for “Boxed In: The United states Multiracial Movement."

Wong, Joseph, Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea , Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
232 pp. (paperback, 2006) Grant recipient for “Political Transaction and Welfare Reform in Taiwan and South Korea," (2000).