The Russell Sage Foundation, in partnership with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is pleased to announce eighteen awards to emerging scholars in the Pipeline Grants Competition's sixth round. This initiative supports early-career scholars who are underrepresented in the social sciences or who teach at under-resourced institutions and promotes racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. Six of these awards were co-funded with The Policy Academies.
Following is a list of grantees with links to brief descriptions of their research projects.
Analia Albuja (Northeastern University) will examine how narratives about the “majority-minority shift” – in which White Americans are no longer the numerical majority of the U.S. population – that emphasize the growth of the biracial population influence biracial people’s identity and political preferences.
Jonathan Gordils (University of Hartford) will investigate how the White-Hispanic/Latine and White-Asian income gaps influence perceptions of intergroup competition and other psychological outcomes, such as feelings of mistrust and avoidance.
Edwin Grimsley (Baruch College, City University of New York) will investigate the challenges migrants face in New York City, focusing on the effectiveness of service providers to address their needs.
Melody Harvey (University of Wisconsin, Madison) will examine how the decrease in payday lender operations in Wisconsin has affected participation in state-provided energy assistance programs.
Jennifer Huynh (University of Notre Dame) will explore the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong refugees awaiting deportation.
Sarah Iverson (American University) will examine how the Supreme Court ruling banning race-conscious admissions has affected how college applicants write about race in their college admissions essays and how college preparatory programs advise students to write about race.
Anna Mikkelborg (Colorado State University, Fort Collins) will examine how perceptions of Black government representation influence White voters' beliefs about government legitimacy.
Hannah Nam (Brooklyn College, City University of New York) will examine how the degree of discomfort provoked by rationales for increasing diversity relates to support for (or opposition to) diversity-related policies and preferences for expanding racial justice.
Melissa Noel (Temple University) will examine how the incarceration and deportation of a parent shapes the lives of Black and Latinx young adults.
Porche' Okafor (North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University) will examine the impact of nationality and citizenship status on sentencing disparities.
Margaret Perez Brower (University of Washington, Seattle) and Jamila Michener (Cornell University) will examine how the impacts of COVID-19 relief policies varied among working women of different racial and ethnic groups.
Rebecca Anna Schut (Case Western Reserve University) will create a publicly available database of state immigration policies from 1990 to 2025 and will examine the extent to which state-level demographic changes predict more restrictive or accommodating state-level immigration policymaking.
Phi Su (Williams College) will explore how advocates help new immigrants resettle in Berkshire County, a rural county in Massachusetts, which has not historically received large numbers of migrants.
Yining Tan (University of Arizona) will explore how skilled migrants navigate the dual responsibilities of childcare and eldercare and how being part of the “sandwich generation” affects economic mobility and gender equity.
Natalie Vena (Queens College, City University of New York) will investigate the ways in which residents in Southeast Queens, New York, appeal to their government officials about environmental hazards and how government officials respond to their demands for environmental protection.
Derek Wu (University of Virginia) and Neil Cholli (Cornell University) will examine the impact of administrative burdens on participation in multiple safety net programs and explore how reducing burdens can improve access and outcomes for low-income families.
Jiee Zhong (Miami University), Riley Acton (Miami University), and James Flynn (Miami University) will investigate the short- and long-term effects of reduced abortion access on educational attainment and labor market outcomes.