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Apply RECIPIENT PUBLICATIONS Supported by Horowitz Foundation Grants 20 15 Recipients Koebele, Elizabeth A., "Cross-Coalition Coordination in Collaborative Environmental Governance Processes," Policy Studies Journal, (2019). Grant recipient for "Collaborative Water Governance in the Colorado River Basin: Understanding Coalition Dynamics and Processes of Policy Change." Niker, Fay, Forthcoming Chapter in Putting Virtue into Practice: Theoretical and Practical insights, Routledge. Grant recipient for "Transformative Nudging: A Framework for Designing Policy Ecologies that Support Living Well." 20 13 Recipients Leeuw, H.B.M, Big Data and Evaluation: A Case Study on Digital Piracy, the Copyright Alert System and Big Data , Piscataway, New Jersey, Transaction Publishers 2016. Grant recipient for "Big Data and Digital Piracy: Evaluating the graduated response." Cantor, Alida, "The public trust doctrine and critical legal geographies of water in California, Geoforum , Vol 72, June 2016 49-57. Grant recipient for "Dust storms and dying lakes: Wastefulness, beneficial use, and water transfers in California." Reisenbichler, Alexander “A Rocky Path to Homeownership: Why Germany Eliminated Large-Scale Subsidies for Homeowners.” Cityscape vol. 18 no. 2 (November 2016). Grant recipient for "Safe as Houses: What Explains Government Involvement in Housing Markets in the U.S. and Europe?" 20 12 Recipients Fisher, Michael P., “PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence,” Social Science & Medicine 115 (2014) 1-9. Grant recipient for “Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the 21st Century: Social Action in the Name of Diagnosis and Disability Compensation." Mackey, Tim, “Global Health Diplomacy and the Governance of Counterfeit Medicines: A Mapping Exercise of Institutional Approaches” Journal of Health Diplomacy, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2013). Grant Recipient for “Pharmaceutical e-Marketing: Illicit Actors and Challenges to Global Patient Safety and Public Health." 20 11 Recipients Ciplet, David, et al., Power in a Warming World: The New Global Politics of Climate Change and the Remaking of Environmental Inequality, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2015 (forthcoming), 332 pp. Grant recipient for “Between a Rock and a Gas Place: How Regulatory Policy for Emerging Technologies is Shaped in the Context of Scientific Uncertainty." Good, Michael, “Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to US State Immigration Legislation,” Applied Economics, Volume 45, Number 30. pp. 4275–4297. Grant recipient for “Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to U.S. State Immigration Legislation." Hussain, Muzammil M., State Power 2.0: Authoritarian Entrenchment and Political Engagement Worldwide. Grant recipient for “Post-Authoritarian Political Monitoring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: Investigating Information Activist Networks in the European Neighborhood." McCarthy, Michael, “Turning Labor into Capital: Pension Funds and the Corporate Control of Finance,” Politics & Society, Volume 42, No. 4 (2014). Grant Recipient for “Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000." McCarthy, Michael, “Political Mediation and American Old-Age Security Exceptionalism,” Work and Occupations , Volume 41, No. 2 (2013). Grant Recipient for “Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000” (2011). Pedulla, David, "Penalized or Protected? Gender and the Consequences of Nonstandard and Mismatched Employment Histories," American Sociological Review, Volume 81, No. 2 (2016). Grant Recipient for "Precarious Work and the New Economy: An Experimental Approach." Polson, Michael “Land and Law in Marijuana Country: Clean Capital, Dirty Money and the Drug War’s Rentier Nexus” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol. 36, No. 2 (November 2013). Grant Recipient for “Marijuana in Northern California: Law, Economy and Medicine in a Shifting Policy Environment." Walker, Alexis N., “Labor’s Enduring Divide: The Distinct Path of Public Sector Unions in the United States,” Studies in American Political Development Volume 28. Issue 2 (October 2014): pp. 175-200. Grant Recipient for “The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States." Walker, Alexis N., "Divided Unions:The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor", University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Grant Recipient for “The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States." 2010 Recipients Gest, J (2016) The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality , Oxford University Press: New York. Grant recipient for "The New Minority: Alienation and Identity among White Working Class Americans." 2009 Recipients Hahn, J. W., Aldarondo, E., Silverman, J. G., McCormick, M. C., & Koenen, K. C. (August 2015). Examining the association between post-traumatic stress disorder and intimate partner violence perpetration among adult men. Journal of Family Violence , 30(6), 743-752. Grant recipient for "Understanding the Role of Trauma and Violence in Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration by Males in the General and Incarcerated Populations." Hahn, J. W., McCormick, M. C., Silverman, J. G., Robinson, E. B., & Koenen, K. C. (November 2014). Examining the impact of disability status on intimate partner violence victimization in a population sample. Journal of Interpersonal Violence , 29(17), 3063-3085. Katz, James E., Mobile Communication: Dimensions of Social Policy , New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011. Grant recipient for “Mobile Communication and Social Policy Conference” held on October 9-11, 2009 at the Heldrich Hotel, New Brunswick, NJ. 2008 Recipients Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the America City. New York: Crown, 2016. Grant recipient for "Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty." Skarbeck, David Benjamin, “Governance and Prison Gangs,” American Political Science Review (forthcoming). Grant recipient for “Problems of Organized Crime: How to Combat Thieves, Thugs, Terrorists, and Traffickers." 2007 Recipients Cross-Barnet, Caitlin and Katrina Bell McDonald , Marriage in Black: The Pursuit of Married Life among American-born and Immigrant Blacks, Routledge, 2018. Grant recipient for "The Successful Black Marriage Study." 2006 Recipients 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,” 2008. Grant recipient for “The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition." 2005 Recipients Guzzo, Karen, “Competing Obligations, Child Support, and Men’s Visitation with Nonresidential Children,” presented at the National Survey of Family Growth Research Conference, October 19-20, 2006, pending publication at Journal of Family Issues. Grant recipient for, "Men's Multi-Partnered Fertility: Implications for Paternal Involvement." 2004 Recipients 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." 2003 Recipients Lin, Fen, “Dancing Beautifully but with Hands Cuffed? A Historical Review of Journalism Formation during Media Commercialization in China,” Perspectives, 7(2): 79–98 pp., 2006. Grant recipient for “Dancing with Hands Cuffed: Media Commercialization and Political Development in China." Whelan, Christal K., “Agonsho: A Japanese New Religion.” Completion of dissertation at Boston University on topic of the same title, December 22, 2003. 2002 Recipients Davis, Joseph E., “Suffering, Pharmaceutical Advertising, and the Face of Mental Illness,” The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2006.pp. 62–67. Grant recipient for "Paxil and Anxiety: Social and Ethical Implications of the New Pharmacology." Haffmann, Drew, Jesse Rude, and Kim Ebert, “The Biomedical Legacy in Minority Health Policy-Making, 1975–2002,” Research in the Sociology of Healthcare, Volume 23, 245–275 pp., 2005. Grant recipient for “Closing the Gap: Explaining the Content, Heterogeneity, and Survival of Minority Health Policy Proposals." 2001 Recipients Germani, Ana Alejandra, Gino Germani: Del Antifascismo a la Sociolgía, Buenos Aires: Taurus Ediciones, 2004. 412 pp.; and Gino Germani: Antifascism and Sociology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008. 248 pp. Grant recipient for, "From Antifascism to the Institutionalization of Sociology in Argentina." Leoussi, Athena S., “The Ethno-Cultural Roots of National Art,” Nations and Nationalism (2004). Grant recipient for “Cultural Policies and the Development of Czech National Art." 2000 Recipients 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." 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." 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." 1999 Recipients 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." 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." 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." 1998 Recipients 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." 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." Drumble, Mark A., “Poverty, Wealth, and Obligation in International Environmental Law,” Tulane Law Review, Volume 76, No. 4, March 2002. Grant recipient for “Selfish Altruism or Shared Compact, Mechanisms to Promote Developing Nation Participation in Environmental Agreements." 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." 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."

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The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy administers grants to PhD students in the social sciences who are at the dissertation stage. The Horowitz Foundation supports policy research by emerging scholars whose work addresses contemporary issues in the social sciences. Established in 1997, our first grants for outstanding policy research were issued in 1999. Since then we have made 421 awards to students around the world. Our Mission The Foundation's general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. Learn More We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Horowitz Foundation Awards Apply Here 2025 Award Recipients 1/1 Join to receive email updates on awards! 2025 Awards Announced For applications submitted in December 2024

Latest News News Sign up Above for Email Alerts for Upcoming 2022 Application Deadlines March 2023: María-Elena Giner, 2020 Grant Recipient, is published in the Journal of Environmental Science & Policy for research entitled "Assessing the impact of wastewater infrastructure along the Texas-Mexico Border: Did we make a difference on contagious diseases?" February 2023: Anisa Kline, 2021 Recipient, is published by the Ohio Latino Affairs Commission for research entitled "Latino H2A Workers and Their Importance for Ohio" 2022: Betsy Q. Cliff, 2018 Recipient, is published in Health Services Research for research entitled "Do high-deductible health plans affect price paid for childbirth?" July 2022: Call for Applications June 2022: Press Release, Horowitz Foundation Announces 2021 Awards March 2022: Shiran Shen, 2016 Grant Recipient, published a book, "The Political Regulation Wave: A Case of How Local Incentives Systemically Shape Air Quality in China" October 12, 2021: Douglas Luke installed as the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at Washington University in Saint Louis' Brown School. July 26, 2021: Call for Applications June 23, 2021: Press Release, Horowitz Foundation Announces 2020 Awards 2020: Danielle Judith Zola Carr, 2017 Recipient, is published in History of the Human Sciences for research entitled "‘Ghastly marionettes’ and the political metaphysics of cognitive liberalism: Anti-behaviourism, language, and the origins of totalitarianism" July 1, 2020: Press Release, Horowitz Foundation Awards Grants to 25 Scholars for Social Policy Research February 2020: Alexis Walker, 2011 Grant Recipient, publishes a new book based on research partially funded by HFSP: https:/www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16036.html May, 2019: UC - Berkeley Events and Media, DCRP PH.D. CANDIDATE RECEIVES HOROWITZ FOUNDATION GRANT October 3, 2018: Inside Higher Ed Weekly Newsletter, Advertisement September 22, 2018: Philanthropy News Digest, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Accepting Applications for Research August 7th, 2018: ProFellow Call for Applications , PhD Candidates: Apply Now for 2018 Social Policy Research Grants July 11, 2018: Veronica Horowitz (2017 winner) & Christopher Uggen, "Consistency and Compensation in Mercy: Commutation in the Era of Mass Incarceration" , Social Forces

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2024 Grant Recipien ts For Applications receive d in 2023 Martina Beretta The "Great Gatsby Curve" in Europe: Is There a (Inverse) Relationship between Inequality and Social Mobility? Since the 1970s, rising inequality has constrained economic growth. The Great Gatsby Curve highlights the social dimension of this problem, linking inequality to mobility (i.e., shifts in individuals’ socioeconomic positions across generations). My project assesses this link’s strength and explores the potential mechanisms underpinning it in a novel way. Alexander Borsa Financializing Fertility: Private Equity and the Management of Reproduction My dissertation project examines the increasing ownership and consolidation of US fertility practices by private equity (PE) firms. By combining a novel dataset of all PE-owned practices with qualitative interviews, my work contributes to ongoing policy debates and scholarly inquiry on the financialization of health and reproduction. Caitlin Cassady Medical Aid in Dying: Physician Beliefs, Practices, and Respect for Autonomy Medical aid in dying (MAiD) policy is evolving and expanding. Removal of residency requirements in some states ostensibly makes MAiD available to all Americans. This project examines extant knowledge gaps such as imbalances between intended safeguards and access, ethical dilemmas with disabled persons, and complexities in forming MAiD best practices. Jakob Dirksen Investigating Multidimensional Well-Being Indices as Evidence-Base to Advance Equitable, Cross-Sectoral Policies I study and develop new policy-oriented metrics of well-being and inequalities across the many domains of life (e.g. income and wealth, health, education, employment, social relations, etc.). I am to contribute to a better evidence-base to inform policies that equitably advance social welfare and reduce disadvantage. Catria Gadwah-Meaden Disabled Veterans' Access to and Use of Safety Net Programs: An Examination in the Context of SNAP This quantitative study has two aims. First, it explores disabled veterans' risk of experiencing material hardship and their broader program participation behaviors. It then turns to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and employs quasi-experimental methods to examine how changes to benefit eligibility differentially impact veteran populations. Priya Gandhi Exploring the Impact of Horizontal Hospital Consolidation in Rural Communities on Equitable Health Care Outcomes Little information exists on how horizontal hospital consolidation (HHC), or mergers and acquisitions, impact rural communities’ access to health care. This dissertation explores such impacts by leveraging mixed methods and community engagement, enabling rural communities to design responsive policies to help inform more equitable future HHC events. Kim Gannon The Criminal-Legal, Health, and Racial Implications of Drug-Induced Homicide (DIH) Laws Despite recognition of the inefficacy and racial inequity of policies in the “War on Drugs” era, drug-induced homicide (DIH) laws are increasing in popularity among states. I will examine how these laws affect criminal-legal and 911 utilization disparities, and whether racial stereotypes of “drug dealers” impact DIH laws’ public support. Katherine Ianni The Value of Nonmedical Benefits Delivered Through Private Health Insurers in the Medicare Advantage Program Evaluating the value of nonmedical health insurance benefits is critical for understanding how to address healthcare access barriers. My project fills a research gap by assessing the impact of nonmedical supplemental benefit provision in the Medicare Advantage program using quasi-experimental methods. By leveraging an exogenous policy shock, I evaluate the effect of non-emergency medical transportation provision on care utilization and other measures of access. Garima Jain “Salt in the Wound” or Disaster Resilience: Aquaculture Land Transitions in Coastal India Aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production sector viewed as a big opportunity for addressing food insecurity. I aim to explain the historical geographical patterns of aquaculture land transitions, the factors driving these transitions at a household level, and the consequences of these transitions on people, environment, and places. John Körtner Biased Beliefs, Algorithms, and Street-Level Decision-Making In my project, I aim to better understand the role of bureaucrats’ beliefs within social policy. I examine how caseworkers treat unemployment benefit claimants based on beliefs of employability. In addition, I study how caseworkers update their beliefs and change their behavior in response to information from predictive algorithms. Bethany Kotlar When the Village is Threatened: the Effects of Maternal Incarceration During Pregnancy and Early Childhood on Family Wellbeing Approximately 4% of women enter incarceration pregnant. Prenatal exposure to incarceration may harm children through suboptimal carceral conditions and early disrupted attachment. No studies have prospectively assessed the wellbeing of these children. The purpose of this project is to fill this research gap to inform policies that support child development. Jonathan Lamb "Inclusive and Sustainable Cities: Policy and Well-Being under Incremental, Evolutionary, and Transformational Change" Trustee's Award In three papers, this project explores dynamics between economic, environmental, and social aspects of urban well-being and their implications for planning at different scales: how households value different types of urban amenities, the holistic effects of greenspace subsidies and a land value tax as “bottom-up” strategies, and a proposal for computational backcasting to support long-range planning. Alexander Mikulas Trends in Housing Market Racial Integration and the Foreclosure Crisis: A Space-Time Analysis This project examines changing patterns of US racial residential integration for the years before and after the US foreclosure crisis. Little is known about what role concentrated foreclosure played in marking certain neighborhoods for subsequent racial change. This project estimates and analyzes novel data to answer this difficult question. Spencer Mueller Wobbler Prosecution: How Charging Decisions Impact Criminal Justice Outcomes We develop a causal framework to assess the effect of filing charges on defendants' subsequent justice system involvement. For the marginal defendant, a less severe filing decision leads to a significant reduction in recidivism likelihood. The estimated effects are greatest for defendants without a prior criminal record. Shelby O'Neill Bury Me with My People: Migration from a Mexican Village This project tells the story of migration from a village in rural central Mexico—how the village has been shaped by departure, and how departure has been shaped by US immigration policy. It follows migrants, some with temporary work authorization, some undocumented, as they divide their lives between two countries. Helena Pedroti Optimal Low Income Housing Policy Irving Louis Horowitz Award I seek to answer how building social housing in middle- and high-income municipalities affects residential sorting, housing prices, and market-rate construction and the implications for policy design. Housing policymakers seem to prefer to provide incentives to communities rather than mandating construction but allowing choice could undermine attempts to decrease segregation. Katherine Richard Penalties in the Safety Net: Effects of Work Requirement Enforcement on Earnings and Benefits U.S. cash assistance penalizes participants who violate work requirements by removing benefit income for periods of time. I use administrative data covering all Michigan cash assistance participants to study how earnings and benefits evolve surrounding a violation of work requirements and quantify effects of increasing penalty duration on economic security. Katharine Sadowski The Evolution of the Early Childcare Market: Historic Trends and the Effect of Minimum Wage Changes on Access to Quality Care I examine how the early childcare workforce and local childcare access has evolved over the past thirty years and contribute the first causal estimates of how minimum wage increases impact access to quality childcare. My goal is to inform current state and national policy debates around increasing childcare worker compensation. Hilton Simmet From Justice to Just Science: The Politics of Inequality Research in the US, France, and India Hilton's research comparatively examines the relationship between political theory and public policy, with a particular focus on how different social science research paradigms seek to address inequality and reflect underlying ideas of political order--of social justice and the welfare state--in France, India and the US. Genevieve Smith Assessing Alternative Lending Tools Using Machine Learning on Financial Inclusion & Gender Equity AI tools using machine learning (ML) to assess creditworthiness are proliferating in low- and middle-income countries, promising financial inclusion and economic growth. My research explores if and how ML-based credit assessment impacts financial inclusion and gender equity through a mixed methods approach utilizing interviews, computational social science, and survey data.

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The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy aims to support emerging scholars in the social sciences through small grants for their doctoral research. Meet the Foundation Mary Curtis Horowitz & Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, Founders The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy was established in 1997 by Irving Louis Horowitz and Mary Curtis Horowitz and has been funded by contributions from them since its inception. The Foundation received approval as a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) organization in 1998. The Foundation's general purpose is to support the advancement of research and understanding in the major fields of the social sciences. Its specific purpose is to provide small grants to aspiring PhD students at the dissertation level to support the research they are undertaking for their project. The idea for the Foundation emerged from Irving Louis Horowitz’s experience working with doctoral students. He found that many faced financial barriers to completing their research. Dr. Horowitz initially provided assistance to these scholars personally, and later through Transaction Publishers’ Grants-in-Publication Program. After the termination of that program, the foundation was established in 1997. The first grants were issued in 1999. Dr. Irving Louis Horowitz, 1968 Board of Trustees Dedication. Expertise. Passion. Irving Louis Horowitz (1929–2012) Founding Chairman Rutgers University Mary Curtis Horowitz Trustee Transaction Publishers (President, 1997-2017) Ayse Akincigil Chairman Rutgers University Ray C. Rist, Vice Chairman The World Bank Richard L. Edwards Trustee Emeritus Rutgers University Hans-Martin Boehmer - Duke University Jonathan D. Breul - Georgetown University Michal Grinstein-Weiss - American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Mary M. McKay - Washington University in St. Louis Peter Moskos - John Jay College of New Jersey Nandini Ramanujam - McGill University William M. Rodgers III - Federal Reserve Maggie Schneiderman - National Geographic Society William Strong - Kotin Crabtree & Strong Jos Vaessen - Inter-American Development Bank Ryan Watkins - George Washington University Allison Zippay - Rutgers University Aim and Mission To support emerging scholars through small grants; To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences. Grants Grants are based solely on merit. Each is worth a total of $10,000; $7,500 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project. For grant recipients to be entitled to their second installment, they must show evidence of one of the following: Acceptance and approval of their dissertation; Acceptance of an article based on the research by a peer-reviewed journal; or Invitation to write and publish a book chapter based on the research. Grants are non-renewable and recipients have five years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment. Eligibility Eligibility Beginning in 2023 you CANNOT apply more than once. If you have applied before 2023 and want to apply again, you are still eligible. Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation; Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible; Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department; Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required. Criteria Criteria The foundation supports projects with a social policy application on either a global or local level. Applications are evaluated based on the Trustees’ assessment of criteria such as: feasibility, applicability, originality, methodology, theoretically informed or empirically rich research, and recommendation forms. No specific weight is given to any one area. Proposals are evaluated based on overall merit of all aspects of the application. We encourage applicants to look at the kind of projects we have supported in previous years. See Previous Recipients. Conditions Conditions Awards are made to individuals, not institutions. If processed through an institution, a waiver for overhead is required. Recipients are expected to acknowledge assistance provided by the foundation in any publication resulting from their research and should notify the Foundation with publication details. Grants are issued immediately on receipt of an acceptance letter from the recipient. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure the grant does not conflict with other funding they have secured. Grants are usually administered in June of the year they are decided. Grant recipients will be publicized on the foundation's website, in appropriate professional media, and a press release to university media offices. Special Awards Special Awards Each year, the Trustees issue special monetary awards for the two most outstanding projects. These awards cannot be applied for directly, and are only granted at the discretion of the Trustees. Irving Louis Horowitz Award Overall most outstanding project This award carries with it an additional $5,000. Trustees' Award For the most innovative approach in theory and/or methodology This award carries with it an additional $3,000.

Board of Trustees BOARD OF TRUSTEES Irving L. Horowitz (1929–2012), Founding Chairman Rutgers University Mary Curtis Horowitz , Chairman Transaction Publishers (President, 1997-2017) Ray C. Rist , Vice Chairman The World Bank Ayse Akincigil Rutgers University David J. Armor, Emeritus George Mason University Hans-Martin Boehmer Duke University Jonathan D. Breul Georgetown University Richard L. Edwards Rutgers University Pearl Eliadis McGill University Michal Grinstein-Weiss Washington University in St. Louis Melissa Jonson-Reid Washington University in St. Louis Mary M. McKay Washington University in St. Louis Nandini Ramanujam McGill University William M. Rodgers III Rutgers University Maggie Schneiderman Jos Vaessen The World Bank