Cultural Contact

Recent Awards

Susan Fiske, Princeton University

"Envy Up and Contempt Down: Intergroup Experience in the Stereotype Content Model"
November 2007, $186,270
Project Description

Geoffrey Cohen, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Identity Threat and the Racial Achievement Gap"
November 2007, $149,851
Project Description

Ida Mukenge, Morehouse College
Obie Clayton, Morehouse College
Tshilemalama Mukenge, Morehouse College

"Socio-Cultural Factors in Diet, Nutrition, and Health: Comparing African Immigrant and African American Families in Atlanta"
October 2007, $28,545
Project Description

Bonita London, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Suparna Rajaram, State University of New York, Stony Brook

"Minority Status and the Academic Achievement Gap: Assessment of the Social, Cognitive, and Health Markers of Stereotype Threat"
June 2007, $167,414
Project Description

Alicia Fernandez, University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth Jacobs, Rush Medical College

"Immigration, Culture, and Health Care"
November 2006, $793,893
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Thomas Ricento, University of Texas, San Antonio

"Language Ecology and Health Care: Language Varieties and Communication in a Latino-Serving Family Health Center"
November 2006, $32,942
Project Description

Michael P. Murray, Bates College
Michael J. Sargent, Bates College

"The Relationship Between Police Officers' Racial Attitudes and Their On-the-Job Behavior"
July 2006, $230,424
Project Description

Pia Rebello Britto, Yale University

""Man Ana?": An Investigation of Ethnic Identity Formation of Muslim Arab Children in the United States"
June 2006, $103,510
Project Description

Alex J. Hu, Peking Union Medical University

"Under the Knife: Medical 'Noncompliance' in Hmong Immigrants"
May 2006, $35,000
Project Description

Hisako Matsuo, St. Louis University
Wai Hsien Cheah, St. Louis University
Ajlina Karamehic, St. Louis University

"Functional Fitness, Psychological Well-Being, and Intercultural Identity in Cross-Cultural Adaptation: An Audience Segmentation Analysis of Bosnian Refugees in St. Louis, Missouri"
November 2005, $111,654
Project Description

Samuel R. Sommers, Tufts University

"Evaluating Diversity: The Influence of Racial and Gender Composition on Information Processing and Group Decision Making"
November 2005, $97,286
Project Description

Ibrahim Kira, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center
Vidya Ramaswamy, Wayne State University

"Trauma Related Factors and Socio-Cultural Acceptance in a Group of Iraqi Refugees"
August 2005, $24,995
Project Description

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Harvard University

"How Does Culture Make a Difference in American Health Care? American Health Care at the Interface of Ethnicity/Race and Citizenship: Culturally Specific Care in Changing Contexts"
June 2005, $349,992
Project Description

Robyn Mallett, University of Virginia
Timothy D. Wilson, University of Virginia

"Affective Forecasting: Implications for Outgroup Contact"
June 2005, $109,423
Project Description

Susan Turner Meiklejohn, Hunter College, CUNY

"Creating Community in Sunnyside: Understanding Affiliative Ties Between Immigrants and their Neighbors in a Highly Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood"
November 2004, $99,101
Project Description

Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford University

"Racial Bias in Policing"
November 2004, $35,000
Project Description

Andrew Fuligni, University of California, Los Angeles

"Supplemental Appropriation for 'Social Identification and the Academic Adaptation of Adolescents from Immigrant Families'"
November 2004, $173,650
Project Description

Jennifer Crocker, University of Michigan
Robin Ely, Harvard University
Debra Meyerson, Stanford University
Claude Steele, Stanford University

"Defensive Routines in Intergroup Relations"
May 2004, $24,305
Project Description

Julia A. Woodzicka, Washington and Lee University

"The Measurement and Intergroup Impact of White Privilege"
May 2004, $26,700
Project Description

Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University
Katherine Newman, Harvard University

"The Legal Design of Equality Based on the Science of Ordinary Prejudice"
October 2003, $49,300
Project Description

Kay Deaux, City University of New York

" Explaining the ‘Generation Gap': Promotion and Prevention Strategies as Predictors of Stereotype Threat Effects"
October 2003, $15,585
Project Description

Andrew Fuligni, University of California, Los Angeles

"Supplemental Appropriation for 'Social Identification and the Daily Academic Adaptation of Adolescents from Immigrant Families'"
September 2003, $25,887

Dacher Keltner, University of California, Berkeley

"Interracial Friendship"
June 2003, $193,868
Project Description

Bernadette Park, University of Colorado, Boulder
Charles Judd, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Unconscious Racial Biases in Police Decision Making"
June 2003, $172,765
Project Description

Philippe Bourgois, University of California, San Francisco

"Confronting Inner City Social Suffering in the County Hospital: Teaching Doctors to Heal Poverty"
April 2003, $49,950
Project Description

Mark R. Warren, Harvard University

"Becoming Antiracist: White Americans Working for Racial Justice and Equality"
March 2003, $44,529
Project Description

Diane Ruble, New York University
Kay Deaux, City University of New York
Jacquelynne Eccles, University of Michigan

" Social Identity in Context: Behavioral Engagement and Commitment to Educational and Other Institutions"
November 2002, $400,000

Andrew Fuligni, University of California, Los Angeles

"Social Identification and the Daily Academic Adaptation of Adolescents from Immigrant Families"
November 2002, $291,533

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Harvard University

" The Culture of Medicine and Disparities in Medical Treatment by Race, Ethnicity, and Class "
June 2002, $35,000

Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Martha Minow, Harvard University
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago

"Law and Culture Working Group"
June 2002, $272,859

Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Claude Steele, Stanford University
Dorothy Steele, Stanford University

" From Diversity to Community: Models of Difference and Inclusion in American Life (Phase 2)"
June 2002, $414,000

Tom R. Tyler, New York University
Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia University
Tracey Meares, University of Chicago
Chris Winship, Harvard University

" Legitimacy, Accountability, and Social Order"
June 2002, $287,531

Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago

" The Qur'an and the Constitution: Islamic Adaptations in the United States"
June 2002, $334,327

Marc Bendick, Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc.
Mary Lou Egan, Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc.

" Understanding Employment Discrimination in Its Workplace Context"
April 2002, $41,000

Frank Kessell, Social Science Research Council
Martha Minow, Harvard University
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University

" Law and Culture Working Group (February 2002)"
February 2002, $50,000

J. Nicole Shelton, Princeton University
Jennifer A. Richeson, Dartmouth College

" Intergroup Contact: Interpersonal and Situational Influences on Dyadic Interactions"
November 2001, $197,524
Project Description

Geraldine Downey, Columbia University
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Columbia University

"Sensitivity to Race-Based Rejection and African-American Students' College Experience"
November 2001, $265,980
Project Description

Frank Dobbin, Harvard University

"Diversity Programs at Work: Corporate Activities and Workforce Composition"
November 2001, $107,159
Project Description

Michael Dawson, University of Chicago

"Race and Civil Society"
November 2001, $49,189
Project Description

Maria Krysan, University of Illinois, Chicago

"Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity"
November 2001, $35,000
Project Description

Claude Steele, Stanford University
Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Dorothy Steele, Stanford University

"Group Differences Revisited: The Role of Social Identity Threat and Cultural Models in the Experience of Diversity"
June 2001, $221,382

Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia University

"Law, Legitimacy, and the Construction of Justice: Majority and Minority Community Perspectives on the Law and Legal Authorities"
June 2001, $42,000

Jeffrey Fagan, Columbia University

"Law, Legitimacy, and the Contruction of Justice"
January 2001, $50,000

Patricia M. Greenfield, University of California, Los Angeles

"Bridging Cultures"
December 2000, $35,000

Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Martha Minow, Harvard University

"Law and Culture: Engaging Differences in Everyday Settings"
June 2000, $35,000

Diane Ruble, New York University
Jacquelynne Eccles, University of Michigan
Kay Deaux, City University of New York

"Social Identity in Context: Behavioral Engagement and Institutional Commitment"
June 2000, $256,898
Project Description

Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Claude Steele, Stanford University
Dorothy Steele, Stanford University
Michael Kass, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network

"From Diversity to Community: Models of Difference and Inclusion in American Life"
June 2000, $416,622
Project Description

Ingrid Creppell, George Washington University
Stephen Macedo, Princeton University
Russell Hardin,

"Toleration and Identity Conflict"
June 2000, $17,145

Stephen Graubard, Daedalus

"The Free Exercise of Culture: How Free Is It? How Free Ought It To Be?"
May 2000, $16,700

Kay Deaux, City University of New York
Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
Claude Steele, Stanford University
Ewart Thomas, Stanford University

"Ethnic Identification and Stereotype Threat: The Case of West Indians"
November 1999, $60,464
Project Description

Diane Ruble, New York University
Jacquelynne Eccles, University of Michigan

"Conference on Social Identity"
April 1999, $21,035

James Glaser, Tufts University

"Advancing Group Conflict Theory Through the "
March 1999, $17,030

Joshua Aronson, New York University

"Stereotype Threat: Understanding and Reducing the Negative Effects of Inter-Ethnic Contact on Academic Performance"
November 1998, $231,059

Douglas Medin, Northwestern University
Scott Atran, Northwestern University

"Cognitive Mediation of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Conflict Over a Shared Environment"
November 1998, $222,696

Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
Hazel Rose Markus, Stanford University
Martha Minow, Harvard University

"Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law"
June 1998, $199,465

Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan

"Culture and Pitfalls of Intergroup Contact"
November 1997, $219,159

Clark McCauley, Bryn Mawr College

"The Use of Diversity Training in U.S. Colleges and Universities"
March 1997, $24,928

Patricia M. Greenfield, University of California, Los Angeles

"Improving Intergroup Relations Among Youth Through Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences in Basic Value Orientations"
November 1996, $200,547

Fernando Soriano, ETR Associates

"Improving Intercultural Group Relations in Adolescents: Survey Preparation"
October 1996, $11,762

Marilynn Brewer, Ohio State University
William von Hippel, Ohio State University

"Culture Divides"
March 1996, $9,692

Marc Bendick, Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc.
Mary Lou Egan, Bendick and Egan Economic Consultants, Inc.

"Training Against Employment Discrimination in the United States"
November 1995, $167,850

Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan

"Insults, Violence, and the Culture of Honor"
June 1995, $176,834

Jim Sidanius, University of California, Los Angeles
Marilynn Brewer, Ohio State University
David Sears, University of California, Los Angeles

"Studies in Intergroup Conflict: A University Context"
June 1995, $261,569

Robert Abelson, Yale University
Donald Green, Yale University

"Hate Crimes: Policy and Research"
April 1995, $12,400

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