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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 - Washington University in St. Louis Mary M. McKay - Washington University in St. Louis Peter Moskos - John Jay College of New Jersey Nandini Ramanujam - McGill University William M. Rodgers III - Rutgers University 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.

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2014 All Previous Recipients 2015 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2014 Shifting Tides: Examining Changing Oceans Governance in Bermuda and the Sargasso Sea Leslie Acton Duke University Department of Marine Science and Conservation The Economic and Behavioral Effects of a Value-Added Tax (VAT): Evidence from French Firm-level Data Bibek Adhikari Tulane University Department of Economics How Green Became Good: Urban Greening as Social Improvement in Germany’s Ruhr Valley Hillary Angelo New York University Department of Sociology History, Memory and Resistance in Northeastern Nigeria: The Transformation of Boko Haram since 1995 Athanasius Atta Barkindo University of London School of Oriental and African Studies Race and Consumption: Consumer Markets and the Production of Racial Inequality Raphaël Charron-Chénier Duke University Department of Sociology Constraining Government Regulatory Authority: Transnational Tobacco Companies Usage of Trade Agreements to Undermine Cigarette Package Health Warning Labels  Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award Eric Crosbie University of California – Santa Cruz Department of Politics Police and the Citizen-State Relationship: Accountability Mechanisms, Democratic Control, and Equal Access to Law in the United States Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award Laurel Eckhouse University of California – Berkeley Department of Political Science   Integration beyond Numbers: Getting Along and Working Together in a Multiethnic Neighborhood Denia Garcia Princeton University Department of Sociology Conceptualizing “Productive Use”: Dominant Narratives and Alternative Visions of Land Use in Detroit Catherine Gillis Loyola University Chicago Department of Sociology The Spatial Dynamics of Vigilante Violence in South African Townships Mark Gross University of Maryland – College Park Department of Sociology Laboratories of Inequality: The Politics of Economic Development Subsidies and the Distribution of Resources in America   Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award Joshua Jansa University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Political Science Development Projects, Relative Deprivation, and Insurgent Violence: The Cases of Peru (1980-1992), Colombia (1964-Present), Iraq (2003-2011), and Afghanistan (2001-2011)  Special Recognition Harold D. Lasswell Award Barnett Koven The George Washington University Department of Political Science “Ebola is the Only Work in Sierra Leone Right now”: An Ethnographic Study of Informal Work, Care, and Family Life in Freetown. Jonah Lipton London School of Economics Department of Anthropology If You Build It, Will They Export? A Framework for the Allocation of Welfare-maximizing Domestic Transport Infrastructure Bárbara Oliveira Ramos Tufts University The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Behind Closed Doors: Inequality, Diversity, and the Rise of Occupational Licensure Beth Red Bird Stanford University Department of Sociology Going Underground: Tax Credit Housing, Financial Innovation and the Politics of Stealth in Targeted Social Policy  Special Recognition: Irving Louis Horowitz Award John Robinson Northwestern University Department of Sociology Stemming the Gap: The Puzzle of Missing Female Scientists and Engineers  Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award Ying Shi Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy The Effect of Health Information Technology on Hospital Efficiency and Quality of Care  Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award Ruirui Sun Graduate Center, City University of New York Department of Economics Digital Media Activism and the Movement for Democracy in Hong Kong  Special Recognition Joshua Feigenbaum Award Tin-Yuet Ting University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Sociology 287(g) Local Immigration Enforcement Policy and Health of Mexican Immigrant Families in the US Julia Shu-Huah Wang Columbia University School of Social work

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. The Horowitz Foundation was established in 1997 and its first grants were issued in 1999. Since then it has made 382 awards to students at institutions around the world. About us 2024 Award Recipients 1/1 Join to receive email updates on awards! 2024 Awards Announced For applications submitted in December 2023 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy See us at APPAM this Fall See us at APPAM this Fall

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. All Previous Recipients 2019 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2011 All Previous Recipients 2012 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2011 Between a Rock and a Gas Place: How Regulatory Policy for Emerging Technologies Is Shaped in the Context of Scientific Uncertainty Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award David Ciplet Brown University Department of Sociology Cultured Fish and Contested Space: Exploring the Construction of Emerging US Aquaculture Processes Luke Fairbanks Duke University Duke Marine Lab Do Immigrant Outflows Lead to Native Inflows? An Empirical Analysis of the Migratory Responses to U.S. State Immigration Legislation Michael Good Florida International University Department of Economics The Emergence of “Ethical Capitalism” in Contemporary China: The Globalization of Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Social and Economic Policy Impacts Special Recognition: John H. Stanley Award Andrew Chin-Woo Hao University of California, Berkeley Re-control the Market for Strategic Power: China’s Reregulation of Its Rare Earth Industry Yujia He Georgia Institute of Technology Sam Nunn School of International Affairs Post-Authoritarian Political Monitoring in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya: Investigating Information Activist Networks in the European Neighborhood Special Recognition: Harold D. Laswell Award Muzammil M. Hussain University of Washington, Seattle Examining Chronic and Transient Poverty Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure Sara E. Kimberlin University of California, Berkeley Privatizing the Golden Years: How American Unions Made Pensions More Risky, 1945-2000 Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award Michael Alexander McCarthy New York University Sociology Department Elite Exchanges: The Cultural Politics of Chinese Business in Nigeria Umoloyouvwe Ejiroghene Ovbije Onomake University of Sussex School of Global Studies-Pigeon Holes Precarious Work and the New Economy: An Experimental Approach David S. Pedulla Princeton University Department of Sociology Marijuana in Northern California: Law, Economy and Medicine in a Shifting Policy Environment Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award Michael Polson Graduate Center, City University of New York Restricted Access? Interest Group Participation in Bureaucratic Decisionmaking Rachel Augustine Potter University of Michigan Public Policy and Political Science Crescent, Cross, and Culture: How Politics Shapes Racial and Religious Identity Patrick L. Schoettmer University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science Bluefin Rules: Postcards from the Regulatory and Discursive Fields of Marine Conservation Jennifer Elizabeth Telesca New York University Department of Media The Rise of Public Sector Unionization and its Effect on Organized Labor’s Political Activities in the United States Alexis Nicole Walker Cornell University Department of Government

PRESS RELEASE Contact: Mary Curtis Horowitz 732-445-2280 For immediate release HOROWITZ FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TO 25 SCHOLARS FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH July 1, 2020, New Brunswick, NJ –The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has selected twenty-five scholars to receive grants for research in the social sciences for the 2019 award year. Those receiving awards, their research topics, and the institutions with which they are affiliated are listed at the end of this announcement. “This year we received 965 applications, the largest number in our history,” said Mary E. Curtis. “The twenty-five applicants who are receiving awards this year represent less than 3 percent of those who applied. The Trustees consider their work on topics of social and political importance to be vibrant examples of how policy research can help us address the challenges of today’s complex society.” About the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Established in 1998, the Horowitz Foundation now approves approximately twenty-five grants each year. Awards are for $7,500; proposals in certain targeted areas receive additional amounts. In addition, the Irving Louis Horowitz Award is given to the overall most outstanding project proposal, and the Trustee’s Award is given to the project proposal that is deemed most innovative in theory and/or methodology. Awards are granted for policy-related research in all major areas of the social sciences. Only doctoral students whose dissertation proposals have been approved by their committees are eligible to apply. Awards are approved solely on merit, and are not allocated so as to ensure a representative base of disciplines. Research grants are open to researchers in all social science disciplines. Projects must deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences, particularly issues of policy relevance. Applicants need not be citizens of the United States, and grants are not restricted to U.S. residents. . Applications for 2020 Awards The Foundation will begin accepting applications for 2020 awards later this month. The deadline for receipt of all materials for proposals for the year 2020 is December 1, 2020. Incomplete applications will not be processed. Awards for 2020 will be announced in June, 2021. Additional information, including a list of previous recipients, is available on the Horowitz Foundation website . 2019 Horowitz Foundation Award Winners (Alphabetical order) David J. Amaral, University of California, Santa Cruz Threatening Local Democracy: the political consequences of urban violence Michele Cadigan, University of Washington Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads between Criminal and Conventional Christina Nefeli Caramanis, The University of Texas at Austin Income, Policy, and Stable Center-Based Childcare: Towards Reducing the Achievement Gap Andreas de Barros, Harvard University Martinus Nijhoff Award Establishment-Level ICE Raids: Causes and Consequences Daniel Driscoll, University of California San Diego A Comparative Analysis of Carbon Price Enactment Benjamin Elbers, Columbia University John L. Stanley Award Understanding changing racial school segregation in the U.S. Natalia Emanuel, Harvard University Smudges: Criminal Records and Employment in the US Michael Evangelist, University of Michigan Crime and Punishment in the Welfare State: How Political, Economic, and Social Factors Condition the Administration of Penalties for Program Violations Shannon Malone Gonzalez, The University of Texas at Austin In Her Place: Black Women Redefining and Resisting Police Violence Hunter Johnson, Claremont Graduate University Does the Presence of Female and Minority Police Reduce the Use of Force? Navin Kumar, Yale University Social interactions and treatment outcomes from medication assisted treatment in opioid addiction Joe LaBriola, University of California, Berkeley Local Housing Policy and Wealth Inequality Sadé Lindsay, The Ohio State University Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes Tim McDonald, Pardee RAND Graduate School Developing and Testing a Consumer-Driven Approach to Changing Incentives in American Healthcare Molly Merrill-Francis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Impact of State Minimum Wage Laws on Fatal Occupational Injury Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins, Purdue University Explaining Variation in Legal Outcomes and Well-Being Trajectories for Child Welfare-Involved Families in the Era of the Adoption and Safe Families Act Stephanie Casey Pierce, The Ohio State University Locked Out and Locked Up? Investigating the Relationship Between Eviction and Incarceration Daniel Prinz, Harvard University Robert K. Merton Award The Multiethnic Suburb: New Ground for Racial Residential Integration in the United States Owen Schochet, Georgetown University Unpacking the causal effects of two-generation early intervention services on the outcomes of low-income children and their families Jessica C. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University Assessing School Safety in the Age of Threat Assessment: A Policy Study Noémie Sportiche, Harvard University Eli Ginzberg Award Does Economic Growth Benefit All? The Health Consequences of Being Poor in a Booming City Economy Arielle W. Tolman, Northwestern University Donald R. Cressey Award Criminal Prosecution of Prisoners with Mental Illness Matthew Unrath, University of California, Berkeley Trustees’ Award Can Nudges Increase Take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit?: Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments Fabricio Vasselai, University of Michigan Irving Louis Howard Award and Joshua Feigenbaum Award Elections in the AI era: using Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems to detect and study menaces to election integrity Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin – Madison Reducing Prejudice through State Institutions Mary Curtis Horowitz, Chairman Irving Louis Horowitz, Chairman Emeritus Post Office Box 7 Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553-0007 www.horowitz-foundation.org

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2012 All Previous Recipients 2013 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2012 Constraining Government Regulatory Authority: Transnational Tobacco Companies Usage of Trade Agreements to Undermine Cigarette Package Health Warning Labels Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award Eric Crosbie University of California – Santa Cruz Department of Politics Election Reform: How has Early Voting Affected Municipal Elections Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award Gayle Alberda Wayne State University Department of Political Science A New Baby Boom? The Fertility Effects of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award Maria Apostolova University of Kentucky Department of Economics The Bomber Who Calls Ahead: A Theory of Advance Warnings in Terrorism Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award Joseph Brown Columbia University Transforming Battle: the Social Logic of Remote Warfare Special Recognition: Horowitz Foundation Trustees Special Award and Martinus Niehoff Award Madeleine Elish Columbia University Department of Anthropology Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the 21st Century: Social Action in the Name of Diagnosis and Disability Compensation Michael Fisher University of California San Francisco Bureaucratized morality, institutional durability: organizationally-mediated idealism and international relationships in the Peace Corps Meghan Kallman Brown University Department of Sociology The Making of an "Ethical Entrepreneur": South Korea's Post-Bankruptcy Rehabilitation Program and Its Implications Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award Seung-Cheol Lee Columbia University Department of Anthropology The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulationa in the U.S. Trucking Industry Karen Levy Princeton University Department of Sociology Pharmeceutical e-Marketing: Illicit Actors and Challenges to Global Patient Safety and Public Health Timothy Mackey University of California Deliberate Indiscretion: Why bureaucratic agencies make and break rules differently Shaun McGirr University of Michigan Department of Political Science The Role of Budget Reconciliation in Reforming Mandatory Spending Programs Molly Reynolds University of Michigan Department of Political Science Pirates, Anarchists, and Terrorists: Transnational Violence and the Changing Boundaries of Soverign Authority Special Recognition: Harold D. Lasswell Award Mark Shirk University of Maryland – College Park Department of Government and Politics Unpacking the ‘Black Box’ of Policymaking among Central Bankers Ayça Zayim University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Sociology

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2020 Grant Recipient s For Applications Received in 2019 All Previous Recipients David J. Amaral, University of California, Santa Cruz Threatening Local Democracy: the political consequences of urban violence David J. Amaral is a PhD candidate in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focusses on local politics and policy, urban neighborhoods, poverty, inequality, and political participation. Michele Cadigan, University of Washington Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads between Criminal and Conventional Michele Cadigan is a PhD candidate of sociology at the University of Washington. Cadigan's work brings together frameworks from economic sociology, law and society, and criminal justice research to understand the relationship between markets and the criminal justice system and how race is implicated at the intersection of these institutions. Christina Nefeli Caramanis, The University of Texas at Austin Income, Policy, and Stable Center-Based Childcare: Towards Reducing the Achievement Gap Christina Nefeli Caramanis is a doctoral candidate at UT Austin. Christina's research program uses advanced quantitative methods to examine how the social and economic context of families, in part shaped by the surrounding sociopolitical agenda, lead to the social reproduction of inequalities across the life course. Andreas de Barros, Harvard University Do Students Benefit from Blended Instruction? Experimental Evidence from India Special Award: Martunus Nijhoff Award Andreas de Barros is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and a Principal Investigator at J-PAL South Asia. His research specializes in program evaluation and evidence-based education policy, in less developed countries. Daniel Driscoll, University of California San Diego A Comparative Analysis of Carbon Price Enactment Daniel Driscoll is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UCSD. Several key questions motivate his research: Why do some states, institutions, and people fight for the environment, while others do not? And what explains how, in some places but not others, movements and policies emerge in response to climate change? Benjamin Elbers, Columbia University Understanding changing racial school segregation in the U.S. Special Award: John L. Stanley Award Benjamin Elbers is a PhD candidate in sociology at Columbia University. His research focuses on inequality and stratification, with a special interest in school segregation and the connection between educational systems and labor markets. In his dissertation, he develops and applies new decomposition methods for segregation analysis. Natalia Emanuel, Harvard University Smudges: Criminal Records and Employment in the US Natalia Emanuel is a PhD Candidate in the Economics Department at Harvard University. Her research focuses on personnel economics. Prior to graduate study, Natalia received a BA in Economics at Yale University and an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Policy from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. Michael Evangelist, University of Michigan Crime and Punishment in the Welfare State: How Political, Economic, and Social Factors Condition the Administration of Penalties for Program Violations Michael Evangelist is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan. His work examines the social determinants of trust in society. He is currently investigating the potential for the punitive administration of public programs to undermine social trust. Shannon Malone Gonzalez, The University of Texas at Austin In Her Place: Black Women Redefining and Resisting Police Violence Shannon Malone Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests are criminology and social policy, and her research incorporates an intersectional analysis into the study of policing. Using mixed-methods, her dissertation investigates black women's experiences with police across social class. Hunter Johnson, Claremont Graduate University Does the Presence of Female and Minority Police Reduce the Use of Force? I am a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Claremont Graduate University. My research interests are in law and economics, particularly issues pertaining to criminal justice. My recent research pertains to how differences in the composition of law enforcement affect outcomes related to crime rates, arrests, and the use of force. Navin Kumar, Yale University Social interactions and treatment outcomes from medication assisted treatment in opioid addiction Navin Kumar is a PhD candidate at the Yale University Sociology Department. He centers on improving health outcomes in marginalized communities. He focuses on increasing uptake of gonorrhea and chlamydia testing among gay men. Related work explores how social networks affect retention among patients receiving treatment for opioid use disorder. Joe LaBriola, University of California, Berkeley Local Housing Policy and Wealth Inequality Joe is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores two broad themes: how socioeconomically advantaged families are able to maintain and extend their advantages, and how precarious work conditions play an increasingly important role in the lives of marginalized populations. Sadé Lindsay, The Ohio State University Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes Sadé Lindsay is a PhD candidate in sociology at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include prisoner reentry and employment, incarceration and health, and drug use and policy. Her dissertation examines how certifications earned in prison shape formerly incarcerated men's ability to find work upon release. Tim McDonald, Pardee RAND Graduate School Developing and Testing a Consumer-Driven Approach to Changing Incentives in American Healthcare Tim McDonald is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses on methods for designing policy for large systems, and the application of these methods to socially important systems such as health, the economy, and national defense. He has an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School. Molly Merrill-Francis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Impact of State Minimum Wage Laws on Fatal Occupational Injury Molly Merrill-Francis is a Health Policy and Management doctoral candidate at JHSPH. Her research interest is using mixed methods to examine the intersection of social determinants of health and injury and violence prevention. She also holds an MPH in Health Behavior from UNC Chapel Hill. Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins, Purdue University Explaining Variation in Legal Outcomes and Well-Being Trajectories for Child Welfare-Involved Families in the Era of the Adoption and Safe Families Act Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins is a PhD candidate in Human Development & Family Studies at Purdue University, studying contexts and consequences unique to non-voluntary, state-mandated child protective interventions – including the role of state/federal policies (and community-level implementation thereof) on both lived experiences and longitudinal outcomes for state-supervised children and parents. Stephanie Casey Pierce, The Ohio State University Locked Out and Locked Up? Investigating the Relationship Between Eviction and Incarceration Stephanie Casey Pierce is a doctoral candidate at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State. Her current research uses mixed methods to investigate the dynamics of eviction and recidivism and tenants’ perceptions of causes of eviction. She holds an MPP from Georgetown University. Daniel Prinz, Harvard University Employer Responsibility for Disability Insurance in the Contingent Workforce: Evidence from the Netherlands Special Award: Robert K. Merton Award Daniel Prinz is a PhD student at Harvard University. He studies the economics of social insurance programs, conducting empirical research on disability insurance programs in the U.S. and the Netherlands, and on the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Owen Schochet, Georgetown University Unpacking the causal effects of two-generation early intervention services on the outcomes of low-income children and their families Owen Schochet is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. His research uses rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental methods to examine the effectiveness of publicly-funded early childhood education programs in promoting the development of low-income children, including through their effects on parents’ human capital and parenting skills. Jessica C. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University Assessing School Safety in the Age of Threat Assessment: A Policy Study Jessica C. Smith is a third year doctoral student in the Public Policy and Administration Program at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she also received her M.S. in Criminal Justice. Jessica's research focuses on school safety and threat assessment. Her research is informed by her prior experience in state government. Noémie Sportiche, Harvard University Does Economic Growth Benefit All? The Health Consequences of Being Poor in a Booming City Economy Special Award: Eli Ginzberg Award Noémie Sportiche is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University, where she studies interactions between urban policies, urban development, and health. Her dissertation examines how housing markets impact health. Previously, Noémie earned degrees in cognitive science and public health and spent four years working as an urban planner. Arielle W. Tolman, Northwestern University Criminal Prosecution of Prisoners with Mental Illness Special Award: Donald R. Cressey Award Arielle W. Tolman is a JD/PhD Candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University and a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. She received her BA in Sociology and Neuroscience and Behavior from Wesleyan University in 2010 and her MA in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2015. Matthew Unrath, University of California, Berkeley Can Nudges Increase Take-up of the Earned Income Tax Credit?: Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments Special Award: Trustees Award Matt Unrath is a PhD candidate in public policy at UC Berkeley and a Research Fellow at the California Policy Lab. His research focuses on households' interactions with transfer policies and means-tested programs. Matt holds a MPP from UC Berkeley and a BA in International Studies from Boston College. Fabricio Vasselai, University of Michigan Elections in the AI era: using Machine Learning and Multi-Agent Systems to detect and study menaces to election integrity Special Awards: Irving Louis Howard Award and Joshua Feigenbaum Award Fabricio Vasselai is a Dual PhD candidate, in Political Science and Scientific Computing, at University of Michigan. A MICDE Fellow 2018-2019, he's currently a Researcher at Umich's Center for Political Studies and Center for Complex Systems. In the past, a visitor at Åbo Akademi (Finland) and Fundación Juan March (Spain). Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin – Madison Reducing Prejudice through State Institutions Chagai M. Weiss is a PhD candidate at the department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His interests lie in the intersection of ethnic politics, political psychology, and intergroup conflict, with a regional focus on the Middle East. Chagai's research has been published by Governance, and Political Geography. Please reload

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy award winners from previous years. 2013 All Previous Recipients 2014 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2013 Undeveloping Detroit: Race, Property, and the Taking Back of the Outer City Special Recognition: John L. Stanley Award Jackson Bartlett Northwestern University Department of African American Studies Stratified Surveillance: Policing in the Age of Big Data Special Recognition: Irving Louis Horowitz Award Sarah Brayne Princeton University Department of Sociology Saving the Sacred Sea: Lake Baikal Environmental Activism from the Soviet Union to Globalized Modernity  Kate Brown Vanderbilt University, Department of Sociology Dust Storms and Dying Lakes: Wastefulness, Beneficial Use, and Water Transfers in California Special Recognition: Martinus Nijhoff Award Alida Cantor Clark Univeristy Department of Geography Bumping up the Batting Average?: Post 9/11 Analytic Tradecraft Reform in the Intelligence Community Special Recognition: Harold D. Lasswell Award Stephan Coulthart University of Pittsburgh School of Public and International Affairs   The Politics of Kidnapping: Explaining Mutual Restraint in Terrorist and Guerilla Conflicts Joe Gardner University of California Department of Political Science Examining the Role of Place-Based Interventions in Supporting Military Family Health: A Mixed Methods Study of Family-Centered Therapeutic Landscapes Special Recognition: Eli Ginzberg Award Sara Green University of Washington Department of Social Work Inequality in the Worst of Times: Recessions and Public Concern for Income Inequality in Europe and the United States.  Jason Hecht Cornell University Department of Government Lives in the Balance: A Comparative Study of Public Social Investments in Early Childhood Across OECD Countries Phyllis Jeroslow University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare Big Data and Digital Piracy: Evaluating the graduated response Special Recognition: Joshua Feigenbaun Award Bastiaan Leeuw Maastricht University Department of Criminal Law and Criminology Fragmented Terror: Exploring the Variation and Consequences of Terrorist Organizational Splintering Evan Perkoski University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science Safe as Houses: What Explains Government Involvement in Housing Markets in the U.S. and Europe? Special Recognition: Robert K. Merton Award Alexander Reisenbichler George Washington University Department of Political Science Understanding Veteran Readjustment in Western Massachusetts Kerry Anna Spitzer MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning Babies Having Fewer Babies: What Was Behind the 1990s-2000s Teenage Baby Bust Poh Lin Tan Duke University School of Public Policy The Competitiveness Trap: The Contradictory Rise of US Multi-City Regionalism David Wachsmuth New York University Department of Sociology Does Distance between Residence and Incarceration Facility Affect Recidivism? Evidence from the Florida Department of Corrections Special Recognition: Donald R. Cressey Award Kaitlyn Wolf West Virginia University Department of Economics

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

All Previous Recipients 2001 GRANT RECIPIENTS For Applications Received in 2000 Ethnoecological Studies in Andean Communities of Chile Amy Eisenberg University of Arizona Business Sector and Economic Policy Making: Four African Cases Antoinette Handley Princeton University The Politics of Wealth Transfer Taxation Sheldon D. Pollack University of Delaware Affirmative Action in Action: Impact of Minority Enterprise Programs Martin Jay Sweet Florida Atlantic University Political Transaction and Welfare Reform in Taiwan and South Korea Joseph Wong University of Wisconsin